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Fed days are no longer volatile because the market has already anticipated the outcome. Was anyone surprised by todays announcement? no.

here they go

You're a victim.

Do not go anywhere near treasuries there is no spread at all. Its really not even a curve anymore, but a line. Harris made his money years ago.

Until government intervention begins to recede no one will beable to make rational decisions about risk. We are in fiat printing war to see who can devalue there currency the most. Foreign central banks big buyers of US debt in week Thu Dec 7, 2006 4:30 PM ET NEW YORK, Dec 7 (Reuters) -...

Does anyone have any insight into how Goldmans analysts and there Global Alpha unit interact? I just get the hunch that there analysts opinions and what there actual traders are doing is vastly different.

Credit conditions are at odds with fundamentals. Someday risk will be repriced, but no one has any idea what are when the catalyst will be. The HF, mutual fund managers are desperate to post any returns this year because they have underperformed and its hard to justify your fees when any index...

Money is being lent to people without a care in the world. There is no credit risk. as Eqt says. "100 percent risk free"

Obviously Peter Thiel is very smart and has been successful in other ventures like paypal, nevertheless it shows up much money is being handed over to people with almost zero experience. 4 years is a joke. How will most of these manangers react when things go completely nuts? Most people...

We can't stop the spread of nuclear weapons without cutting our dependence on oil. Its perverse that we are actually funding the terrorists and trying to kill them at the sametime. The fact that there isnt a race to build more energy self sufficiecy is pathetic. I seriously think everyone is...

I think a little of both is the best. And your right, I have no idea when or how this ends.

Its global flows pushing yields to tiny levels. There is so much money out there that it literally has nowhere to go. We are in the midst or perhaps close to the end of the greatest credit mania in the history of the world.

Does anyone get the impression we are getting close to a major financial crisis? its seems to me that when everything is as euphoric as it is now. tons of liquidity, limitless access to credit, and a lot of imbalances that somthing is going to go wrong.

Who cares. There is no way to predict how the market will react to data.

The real issue is the bond market and what amount of losses foreigners are willing to take. The dollar isn't an issue until rates rise.

The bond market is the domain of foreign central banks. There is no reason to get involved with it until something changes the fundamentals. Do you want to trade the curve that is now a straight line? There is no spread at all

All that matters is that interest rates are low and everyone can borrow themselves into oblivion

The leaders of various countries are spending a lot of time trying to keep the current global financial/economic system together. The question is what is going to happend when someone blinks? The geopolitical aka real world doesn't seem stable at all.

If the system is willing to give massive home loans with no documentation to anyone with a pulse, this should come as no surprise.

The fed's credibility is a joke. Everyone knows they are in the middle of a rock and hard place. The prisoners are out of the asylum.