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The U.S Treasury Bubble: The worst kept secret on Wall Street

Posted by smeddum on March 24, 2009

 

 

March 23, 
By Steve Christ
 
 
By now everybody and his/her mother has heard about the U.S. Treasury bond bubble.
 
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Before the stampede

Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2009

Here the so-called flight to safety, to US government bonds, is presented as the next bubble to burst bringing a second wave of economic destruction in its wake.

W.Joseph Stroupe

Asia Times

14th March, 2009

Increasingly ominous clouds are gathering in what could soon be the perfect storm against the United States dollar and against the present dollar-centric global financial order.
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Deluge of Financial Calamities Looming by Mid-March

Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2009

Patrick A. Heller

Numismaster

10th February, 2009
As horrible as the financial news for currencies and paper assets has been since mid-2007, it looks like the worst is yet to come – perhaps as early as next month. 

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The Fed’s bubble trouble

Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2009

Peter Schiff

Asia Times

13th January, 2009

A few weeks ago when the US Federal Reserve announced a strategy designed to bring down long-term interest and home mortgage rates

through unlimited Treasury bond purchases, government debt staged a spectacular rally.

To the unschooled market observer, the spike may be difficult to understand. After all, why would the value of Treasury bonds rise while their underlying credit quality is deteriorating faster than Bernie Madoff’s social schedule? The move is actually a perfect illustration of the tried and true Wall Street strategy of “buy the rumor and sell the fact”.
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