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

To: DebtBomb who wrote (5491)	3/25/2008 2:09:59 PM
From: stan_hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71406

I'd need to see what you were looking at. For TIC I know that e.g. the UK classification is skewed by the inclusion of tax shelter countries which are only being used for conduits for unidentifiable external sources, which can make some of the data misleading -- ditto the Caribbean classification as another example, the numbers for which obviously do not reflect any kind of political force behind it, it's just a structural phenomenon treas.gov

To: DebtBomb who wrote (5491)	3/25/2008 2:50:48 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71406

It's Asia again, Japan and China in particular. Those, and the oil guys - Brazil, Norway, Mexico, Russia... Poland??? UK and Caribbean flows were large at one point. Those are deflationary flows, I suspect, with some banks in London and the Caribbean doing swaps with European or other banks who needed USD liquidity lately (conspiracy folks would say it's our banks who are buying, and I thought that too at one point. Well, they really are, but because of making these swaps for the European banks. -g-) treas.gov