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

To: Follies who wrote (11611)	9/23/2008 1:23:23 AM
From: Real Man	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71412

Yes, they manipulated markets during every options expiration that went bad in the past year. Here these are: Aug. 07 = surprise discount rate cut Jan 08 = 2 huge cuts March 08 = Soup of facilities, Bear bailout July 08 = Sec "bans" naked shorting Sept. 08 = Sec "bans" shorting Manipulation is a rule for every expiration. Before the credit crisis it amounted to huge liquidity injections, which always gave the big banks/derivative MM a profit. Now it became explicit. Well, 1998 LTCM event was a manipulation of derivative markets by Greenspan, during expiration week as well, so all this has a very long history Now that all this is very explicit, the question is credibility: Who wants to play rigged markets if you can just leave? Nobody can control that, money can leave in nano-second. When the capital leaves, we have a run on the currency. US markets have not been free for quite some time, but lots of folks refused to believe that, linking manipulative surprises to their own bad judgement. I guess this past week clarified the situation.