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Stocks have not "exploded equally" the past two years relative to the 90s tech bubble. The market action today is NOTHING compared to the late 90s.

The Volt gets over 90 mpg. Your argument is invalid.

Welcome to ET. You'll learn who the trolls are soon enough.

One thing the US exports to China is our monetary policy. I know it's not as cool as lead-painted kids toys, but the jokes on China.

If he payed for unemployment insurance every month he would be unemployment. That was his choice when he decided how to compensate himself.

...and most traders are wrong the majority of the time. If I had a billion dollar hedge-fund and decided that becuase it's Friday, and cloudy, and Mars is moving into Aquarius, and my dog shit on the rug this morning, I might feel like going long Wheat or Oil. Point is there is no point...

Most public speeches by officials are riddled with lies, obtuse statements and misdirection: the purpose is to have their mouth move, not to share any pertinent information. This is a given and goes without saying.

Correlation != Causation All those commodities have had bull runs for a number of reasons over the years. It's just plain foolish to think that they are increasing in price now due to inflation.

You can't seriously believe what you wrote: oil is no where near the 120+ it was at, and now they're "supposedly" printing more than ever? Using your logic oil would be at 180 right now. The fact is Bernenke and the FOMC are being very sly about how they are absorbing the clusterfuck known...

correlation != causation

All hope is not lost yet as tax revenue is not the problem: spending is. Cut military spending significantly and we'll be golden.

looks like the gallery beat me to it.. =) The Fed isn't selling anything of size and hasn't for a long time....

you're right, except they are buying debt, not selling it.

ben's right - they're not printing money right now - they haven't been for a while now. This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone except conspiracy theorists with tin-foil hats.

^this. I am not a lawyer and know this to be the law.

its in part 2.

he was pretty candid and his comments on china were dead nuts.

You missed the point and have contributed nothing of value to this discussion.

It's only the single biggest story to the people that don't understand it.

Guys - Before you get tricked by the headline 9T number, use your heads instead of taking this as something it's not. A lot of overnight loans are the same loan rolled over for many days, even weeks, each roll-over being counted as a separate loan. So sorry, it's not really 9T unique...