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To: prosperous who wrote (68123)	11/13/2010 4:16:16 PM
From: posthumousone	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218095

I have to admit...this is so hilarious market-ticker.org but sad it takes cartoons to drive the point home. I wonder how much of the american public would understand this, or even cares...

To: prosperous who wrote (68123)	11/13/2010 5:22:54 PM
From: rich evans	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218095

The Treasury market is very liquied , so China and Japan could sell their holdings but this would reduce the amount they get below their cost probably if they did so in a hurry. And what would they do with the $1.5 T of cash deposits they would get. The reason they have so many treasuries now is that they have had to put their excess dollars from trade somewhere and have chosen treasuries for a lot of it. Although they seem to like to invest in commodities and natural recourse companies now a days. Rich