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

To: ggersh who wrote (43792)	12/20/2011 12:32:17 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71479

Yes, you pay for holding government debt. Weird. Why bother? The short end is really Fed-controlled, and the Fed can make real yield as negative as they want. Sure, the govt. can pay negative interest -vbg- The Fed is really part of the govt., so they can monetize govt. debt. While the process is indirect, it still accomplishes the same thing - they create a much larger monetary base, dropping the leverage in the process. Kid yourself not, this process leads to a major inflation down the road. Yes, rates in currency being printed can be low coz that market is fixed. When the currency can't be printed they shoot up.

To: ggersh who wrote (43792)	12/20/2011 2:50:24 PM
From: Fiscally Conservative	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71479

Santa Rally! Thats all there is to it. Come 2nd week January the hangover begins for the vast majority. Hang in there.