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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (49537)	5/2/2009 11:43:40 PM
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US govt new saving I bond rates 0% (see link below), actually they are -5.4% but they technically don't go below 0%. They could have increased fixed rate to offset if they really wanted people to buy them. The govt is now telling risk-averse mom and pop investors that there is no refuge in govt bonds and they should take market risk and put their money there or stuff it under mattress; I can guess what they are likely to do. Somehow I think this attempt to push risk into people's portfolio will backfire soon. treasurydirect.gov By end of the year I think we will be solidly entrenched into deflation and stronger the attempts to show things with rosy glasses deeper we start digging. At this point main street should be more concerned about having enough liquidity to survive through the onslaught from the next wave until inflation sees light of the day some time into future and should be out of stocks in this controlled market; it works much better when market is free and logic/rationality can be applied to price movement; we have lost that angle and staying in stocks will prove to be risky.