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

To: ggersh who wrote (16217)	1/9/2009 3:32:18 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

Sure. Currency in circulation is up 65.126 Billion YOY. This is, however, tiny compared with other stuff. Most of adjusted base is bank reserves. The Fed will need to print trillions to support the treasuries if and when... Note that the budget deficit will exceed the trade deficit by a wide margin, so FCB support alone will be insufficient this year. They will need to finance a trillion extra. federalreserve.gov But, so far the buyers are mostly foreign central banks jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com