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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (84828)	12/20/2011 3:16:03 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218124

Haim, That ORIGINAL article was posted in 2009. The latter one was from yesterday: For those wondering what all this means, we remind you that there was a roughly $6.5 trillion synthetic (duration mismatch) USD short as of 4 years ago, as we reported at the time. That short has gotten substantially larger following a 4 year regime of the USD as a funding currency courtesy of ZIRP. Which means that any time the liquidity shortage threatens to collapse the system, the first thing to go stratospheric will be the USD as the global financial system scrambles to cover its short. Hawk