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

To: carranza2 who wrote (50633)	3/22/2013 9:57:11 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71475

Well, believe it or not, only 45 bln a month in treasuries is even reflected in adjusted monetary base. 40 bln in agencies is not. Jesse stuff is good as usual. But really Fed does print 85 billion a month. Maybe more, but definitely not less. The Fed can pretend all it wants, put it off balance sheet, say they are buying from mrkt, not directly from treasury, etc.

To: carranza2 who wrote (50633)	3/23/2013 11:17:00 PM
From: Real Man	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

I am deeply upset about so much money being printed, it has even become pointless to track it, or so-called "markets". Yes, a large part goes to bank reserves. 1/2 (40 bln/ mo) is who knOws where - not in currency, not in reserves. None of it goes to people's pockets. If the latter makes one comfortable about inflation, given that there isn't much of it now, so be it. I am not comfortable. I don't personally see a difference between Weimar and US, in terms of how debt is monetized.