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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RJA_ who wrote (4083)	2/8/2008 8:12:08 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

Well, the Fed is quite a creature - it is difficult to determine how much they are actually printing, and the number of coupon passes is not a very good indication. A coupon pass is indeed equivalent to Fed buying T-s on auctions. If they use money created out of thin air to do that, they are printing. If not, they are not, not even when they do a coupon pass. For example: they do a coupon pass, then drain their account for the same amount. They did not print. In addition, there is a bunch of other stuff the Fed can do. They can also hide stuff, pressing the "button" so that nobody knows. Creepy! -g-/-ng- nowandfutures.com The only conclusion I got from a little study, with Bart's help, is this: Message 24294463 siliconinvestor.com