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curious thing... Iran...the axis of evil..state sponsor of terror...overnite.....has all of a sudden become eligible for US subsidized light water nuclear (nu*Q*lar) reactors....amazing what tight US election numbers will do .....

Bernanke has fired 2 warning shots so far....... some folks heard them, some didn't...... don't know what will happen if FF goes to 5.25 and the 10 year sits at 5..I'm not sure Ben knows or cares either

who the hell needs the US Fed anyway.... credit can be created out of thin air as it stands and sold like apples on the corner.... there seems to be no method to drain credit in an orderly fashion and maintain relationships between asset classes.... recall that a few weeks ago...

you mean don't fight the TOKYO fed.... recall that JCB mentioned a few weeks back that it was considering a cut off of free money which sent shock waves through credit markets...the JCB quickly backed off as soon as Bernanke looked up their phone number....... the trade weighted dollar...

gold futures logged a drop of 65,000 contracts in open interest... unbelieveable..................

the first thing to know is government stats are not to be believed.... unemployment numbers are based in part on statistical models (birth - death) and do not count people who have given up looking for work.... so the numbers are now skewed to give cover to the Fed. to stop jacking up...

not sure how news is released now, but it used to be the media got the release 15 minutes prior to write the byline.... then there was a countdown to 8:30:00 and it goes out all at once... surely no one would leave their cell phone on to alert someone ahead of time.............

oil rallies $2 and bonds sky.... who was lucky enough to buy the puts?

I believe there are delivery limits to prevent what you propose...and the rules can change since it's their sandbox you're playing in....

30,000 gold contracts delivered today... puts the thrill back into delivery notices which used to be a balloon race spectacle.... maybe a typo

there is an election due and the Republicans are headed for a Custer style blood letting..... with leftist governments being installed elsewhere, the long side ain't liking the landscape....

curious that a Goldman hire is now in charge of a rudderless boat... I wonder who put him up to it... unless GW will need a wall street type to steer past the 5.50% no man's land

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dow jones has it as a daily item... 10,100 contracts were delivered so far in May, some redelivered I suppose, but that represents 50 million oz....110 million oz. left in the box not sure if the old timers around here have seen this many deliveries before and 20 million oz draw in warehouse...

2.4 million oz. draw today....interesting

NY Fed. speak from earlier this year...interesting... "The net credit exposures in OTC derivatives, after accounting for collateral, are a small fraction of the gross notional values. The ten largest U.S. bank holding companies, for example, report about $600 billion of potential credit...

another 1.2 million oz draw today, setharb must be minting junk silver coins again

nitro must have confused CNBC with the daVinci code....

them waz the days where you could short the 30 year into a refunding and cover at noon the day of the auction. the "after funding rally" was like finding money on the sidewalk 4 times a year...worked for years and many who put on the trade were handed 20 to 40 ticks each auction

2g is here to keep the stats str8.... somebody needs physical delivery since 17 million oz. have been removed from the COMEX in the last 30 days give or take.. it may get redelivered, but why all the trouble? I haven't been following who the delivery stoppers were... but that's a...