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Financial Armageddon Zombies

By GTM on May 9, 2010

Make no mistake about the crash on Thursday. Unless you hear “international banks” and “leverage” and “unwind” in the same sentence, it’s not a valid explanation.

Posted in Market Manipulation, Meltdown | Tagged AIG, FAZ, Fed, GLD, GS, HBC, JPM, SLV | 13 Responses

Delever Before the Hike

By GTM on May 6, 2010

Today confirms the theory that international banks will begin to delever and unload positions ahead of a Fed rate hike.

Posted in PPT, Trading | Tagged Fed, PPT, VIX | Leave a response

This is a quick concept of what is going on under the market’s surface today. The hunter-killer sub is USS National Debt. That’s $53T in unfunded U.S. liabilities. Evidence is pointing to the Fed front running a failure of future Treasury auctions. Last year in the U.S. servicing our debt was a near impossibility. Today it appears to be a universal impossibility.

Posted in Federal Reserve, Market Manipulation, PPT, Solar | Tagged Fed | 7 Responses