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To: John Pitera who wrote (9593)	7/1/2008 11:03:03 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 33421

Global Macro inflation to combat the deflationary aspects of this profound credit meltdown. That too.. ;0) Hawk

To: John Pitera who wrote (9593)	7/3/2008 12:07:09 AM
From: Stoctrash	Respond to of 33421

Nice one John..short and sweet!! Where does the dollar stop after the ECB ? guardian.co.uk It's not looking pretty ..gold could fly and play catchup. Who knows......?? I'm short stocks net like 100% and i'm not sure that's enough...fudgee1! This could really ramp oil to 150 test tomorrow also....lots action around that number me thinks...

To: John Pitera who wrote (9593)	7/7/2008 2:46:23 PM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 33421

Geneva - The global financial crisis could lead to losses of 1,600 billion dollars for financial institutes, according a report in the Swiss Sunday newspaper SonntagsZeitung. It quoted a confidential study by the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates as saying losses for banks holding risky assets could be four times greater than the 400 billion dollars previously estimated. The hedge fund expressed doubts that the financial institutes would be able to drum up enough funds to cover the losses, something it said could exacerbate the crisis. Bridgewater, one of the world's biggest hedge funds, based its calculations on the state of risky debt-based US assets, such as mortgages, credit and credit card demands. The value of such risky assets is 26,600 billion dollars, according to the hedge fund. The losses would amount to 1,600 billion dollars if these assets were valued at market rates and not in the form of securitization, the newspaper said. Copyright, respective author or news agency (editorial note: come on we know that the number is going to bigger than 1.6 Trillion.... but as we move forward into the breadth and depth of summer scorer... the Credit Default Swaps Contraction numbers continue to more and more damage.. JP ed