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    60 Minutes 10-05-08

    saw it but don't think enough was done to examine how much of that market was mortgage related and what the rest of the cds are covering, mind you, maybe no one knows
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    $ reversal ?

    will the $ reverse in November and fall to new lows ? the attached chart is a longterm M $ Cash ( http://mrci.com/ lower left menu) not marked but is the current rally a C of a potential ABC begun in 2005 ? fibo from the euro 05 L the 61.8 is 1.33 and 50.0 is 1.38 do we presume that...
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    engineered gold price rise

    " A fall in the value of the dollar against the other currencies could therefore only be engineered by raising the price of gold expressed in dollars." it's from an article about the 1967 GBP devaluation http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs/may68_vs_degaulle.html will the $ reverse and...
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    Ninja with Zen delayed opening/Mirus

    did you phone Mirus and ask what the problem was ?
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    Amazing Aspet of 'Bailout Bill' That Was Passed That No One Is Talking About

    so given what you've explained above - thanks, how's the 700Billion (840) bailout/rescue supposed to work when there's a 60+ Trillion default threat ?
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    Europe Today (Sunday) BMO

    those guilty of living and spending on credit face the consequences of such fiscal management - or lack of it the US in particular and the UK are both having to 'eat it' credit wise while countries such as Japan and France who only spend what's in their savings account don't have the problem...
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    Amazing Aspet of 'Bailout Bill' That Was Passed That No One Is Talking About

    hope i'm not hijacking or sidetracking your thread ByLoSellHi, i'm still trying to figure-out what this financial crisis is, and doing a little googling came up with the following a multipart series of articles, i've just posted 2, this first relates there's a problem concerning who owns...
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    10M US homeowners owe more mortgage than house's value

    " Because of the decline in house prices that has already occurred, more than 10m home owners now have mortgages that exceed the values of their house. This is 20 per cent of all homeowners with mortgages. For half of that negative equity group, the debt exceeds the house value by more than...
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    Idiots Guide to Banking Crises

    IMF 'Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database' Luc Laeven and Fabian Valencia "This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with...
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    S&P Price Target - any takers?

    the DOW below 1000 ?
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    FTSE Chart

    see: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=138646
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    U.s. Mint Halts Gold Coin Production

    May 3/07 $2.5 - $3 million gold coin: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/05/03/goldcoin.html Sep 26/08 Royal Canadian Mint not suspending sales of gold bullion coins: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2631882920080926
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    S&P Price Target - any takers?

    the question is whether the formation seen on the chart is an A B of an ABC correction, or, a Reversal formation if an abc, c could drop as low as 800, the abc could be regarded as a W 4, and a W 5 portending higher highs begins in 2010 if however it's a Reversal formation ( the SP...
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    Great Summary of how it all happened

    " Alan Greenspan "Blew It" on Mortgage Crisis Alan Greenspan's denial of the existence of a housing bubble and his refusal to do anything about shoddy subprime lending practices illustrates the folly of putting a dogmatic libertarian worshipper of Ayn Rand in charge of a key government...
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    What more bad news could come out?

    that's what they're telling us suppose the real problem's they can't shut the damn thing off !
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    700Billion $ bailout = 3.5 Trillion $ problem ?

    the Feds loaned money to AIG at 11.25% - no fools them so the presumption is the Feds are buying debt at a discount but at what amount ? if they're paying 20 cents on the dollar that means the 'problem' is 3.5 trillion dollars large, at 50 cents on the dollar it's 1.4 trillion dollars...
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    The Bailout and what I'm not clear on

    mortgage losses aren't limited to the fall in house prices -see http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=subprime+houses+demolished&meta= the 'true' costs are yet to be calculated and isn't the greater problem the cds/cdo markets ? - the 'packaged mortgages'
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    You're effing ads are crashing my browser

    i'm still getting the occassional crash
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    Anybody else short US 30 Bond

    was going to start a 'tbond reversal' thread until i discovered this one - which i haven't read thru and am not a bond trader but . . . although the H&S began in 2003, i was thinking the bonds will run-up for 2, maybe 3 months before the reversal begins with increases to the ffr in the...
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    Guys relax, US takes in 2.7 trillion a year in taxes

    Canadian " national resources " are of course its people, but what you think seizing us would do for you i don't know, a liability i think since although North Americans we do things very differently here and might then - as 'Americans' - become a thorn in your side requiring for instance we...
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