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

To: dybdahl who wrote (6779)	5/2/2008 7:44:36 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71445

Bernanke argued that inflation is still considerably overstated here in the US, so a new statistical trick was proposed. Surprisingly, proposed measures get inflation lower, not higher -g- This is what happens at some point, but for now derivatives and FCBs make bonds look super, bond vigilanes of the 80-s are dead: freshplaza.com That said, the new breed is carry traders, and they are selling. They will keep selling bonds and the dollar at these rates, which is why official intervention is likely useless. This is an extremely powerful new breed. They will only die in a derivative meltdown, one that the Fed is trying to avoid at all costs.