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

To: ggersh who wrote (29916)	8/27/2010 11:26:32 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71479

Borderline criminal, but I agree with you, these ain't free markets, they were not for a long time. -ng- What's HFT, for example? Front running is criminal, HFT is apparently not. Not much of a difference, except technically HFT is front running trades based on "available market information" and thus is not pure illegal front running. No wonder HFT make out like bandits, thou. Once they run out of folks to front run or there are too many front runners, machines start to front run themselves and we get flash crashes -g- Borderline criminal, meaning, the Fed will do what they can get away with? Ditto banks. Only sometimes banks and other boyz cross the border and get caught. Then they have a scapegoat ready, rogue trader or something. There were quite a few strange cases of futures rogue traders around during the market melts of 2007-2008. PPT operations that failed due to lack of liquidity? We'll never know.

To: ggersh who wrote (29916)	8/28/2010 8:06:30 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71479

Well... Some deals of 2008 with the Fed/Treasury were quite suspicious, to say the least. Ben was working closely with Hank, who was a tool. WS always was borderline criminal, as greed changes people... The MBS purchases were not all they handled. There were also a bunch of guarantees on blown up derivatives done by the treasury. Fed was unwinding AIG and other sinkholes. North of 20 Trillion, if my memory does not fail. However, that is our country's debt. Not a 20 Trillion addition, but some. Stuff that blew up. My guess would be hundreds of billions, commensurate with the bailout "package" Once again, I'd like to be a fly on the wall... I don't have a clue how much printing is actually happening under cover to monetize everything that blew up. Some of that stuff got transferred to our country's debt, as Skeet correctly noted, some was monetized. -NG- The Fed will do what they can get away with? You can call it criminal, but they will get away with it. They sure DID get away with a lot... Quite disturbing, yes.