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To: Trumptown who wrote (405025)	5/18/2010 10:51:42 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 436259

Yes, very strange market logic indeed, and machine induced. Fed prints, ECB doesn't, so Euro bonds default and Euro drops. There are more dollars, thou. Euro is sold solely based on crappy country credit rating. -g- I would think the dollar must drop, rationally, cause there is no lack of supply. But that may be coming eventually. Europe is taking the red pill.

To: Trumptown who wrote (405025)	5/18/2010 11:03:14 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 436259

> only nit is that the presses can be turned back on.... True. However, the govt. may need a new 5-year plan for that and will need to collect all the necessary signatures. That chit takes time, and they also seem to lack proper comprehension of the situation. <G> As we have seen on Thursday, the markets can be quite fast, with the only buyer not showing up. In other words, they might be late and start the press after we crash. -g-

To: Trumptown who wrote (405025)	5/18/2010 11:19:58 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436259

In general, the Fed is not a drug dealer, even thou thoughts like that were present on this thread. They must broadcast the printing, and they have been under the gun by the public and especially the congress for doing the QE. If they don't, they may go to jail. Ben almost lost his job. They don't want that, and they may not be able to print some more because of the public outrage with the printing effort that just ended. If Ben attempts some more printing, there will be some more drilling involved. In other words, re-starting the printing presses is not as easy as it seems, and this thread consistently assigns more power to the Fed than it really has, including some backdoor dealings. That happened, of course, but NOW is very different from 2008.