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> On Nov 9, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Gary Mongiovi wrote:
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> > This interesting item seems not to have turned up on US radar screens:
> >
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/10/30/
> > ccview30.xml
> >
>
> This is a staple of the conspiracy community. Google "plunge
> protection team" and you'll get something like 750,000 hits. Note
> that the first hit is a 1997 Washington Post article by Brett Fromson
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/blackm/
> plunge.htm>. I happened to meet him a few months ago - he now runs a
> hedge fund that invests in other hedge funds - and he regrets ever
> having written it.
>
> Doug
The yeild curve does seem to have some predictive value no? Travis