Many are convinced the Fed is going to start easing....but what if the crowd is wrong.......what if Bernanke holds his ground and lets the financial markets get what's coming to them?
Which is to work out all of the excesses. It will require pain, losses (both on the institutional and retail side), and long term effects. But if we want to get everything back on track, there needs to be a serious repricing across all markets (equities, fixed income, commodities real estate etc) .....its comeupance time.
Maybe, just maybe, this Fed Chairman is NOT going to be like Greenspan. Maybe he will actually make the players take the hit they NEED to take, and NOT get rescued. That statement this morning was along those lines. Let's see if he, and the rest of the Federal Reserve Committee, have the fortitude to stick to those words.