Look at what the sovereigns are moving TO
http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/17/no-one-wants-to-hold-risk/
They are giving away interest payments just to hold on to their dollars, because there is a dollar shortage.
And now the sovereigns and central banks are having to prop up their own markets.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> Looks like the sovereign wealth funds and Eurobanks are powering up the
> satellite pulse weapons:
>
>
> http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/16/the-flight-from-risky-us-assets-continues
>
> The trend began at least a month ago, but I strongly suspect there's a new
> element in the equation: the prospect of the MacChurian Candidate and Mrs.
> Paleiselin coming to power, the finest government that a low-rent Georgian
> thug and a braindead Alaskan oiligarchy can (and did) buy. My best guess
> is, Wall Street will twist painfully in the wind until the election, when
> it becomes clear which regime wins out -- neolib restoration, or neocon
> suicide.
>
> -- DRR
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-- peace,
boddi
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