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

To: Real Man who wrote (42136)	9/27/2011 6:55:56 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

Uh oh, I believe I read it somewhere that the U.S, doesn't have that much exposure, does that mean "contained"? -nfg-

To: Real Man who wrote (42136)	9/27/2011 8:05:16 PM
From: Slumdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

..........just thought of a disturbing analogy to the notion of flight to U.S.Dollar and treasuries. On August 15, 1998, there was a viscous bombing by a militant faction of the IRA in a town called Omagh in Northern Ireland. What made it particularly heinous, was that when the bombers called in the threat, with the qualifying key words to prove they were the real thing, the gave the location of the bomb. With little time left, people were told to evacuate to another safer spot. That is where the bomb blew up. en.wikipedia.org

To: Real Man who wrote (42136)	9/27/2011 8:08:40 PM
From: Fiscally Conservative	Respond to of 71456

What might ye say to Dow 12,000+ by end of year. Sure looks like they will take her there.

To: Real Man who wrote (42136)	9/27/2011 8:52:19 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

-NFG- "The Carnage...The Carnage..." - Presenting The Complete September And YTD Hedge Fund BloodbathSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 09/27/2011 - 19:19 YTD Performance HSBC has just released their latest weekly hedge fund return compilation report. There is no sugarcoating this: it is a complete bloodbath. It is no surprise why hedge funds are desperate to pull off any sort of month end rally. Without it we fear the hedge fund space, which at last check was approaching $2 trillion in AUM, will collapse by 25% after the new year when the full carnage of the redemption requests is made public. And while we know that Paulson is a, well, liquidator is such a harsh word, but if the word fits (unless of course he makes whole all of his more "senior" investors with his personal cash, something which has been vaguely rumored), we certainly had no idea just how pervasive the decimation within the hedge funds ranks was until we saw the mid-September results. We really, really hope the collusive short squeeze-cum-month end rally works out for the hedge fund community, becuase it really will be "or else."