This has been discussed extensively before. Long story short, its simple interest arbitrage, effectively making it cheaper to aquire reserves from...
UPS warns. This really cant be good lol.
I also initially thought that it was a sign of trouble when H3 figures were published that showed banks had negative reserves for the first time...
Actually the they aren't making as much as most people think. Yes, the products are produced in China, but most of the fat margins are made by the...
And poof, just like that, hundreds of billions of dollars in losses will vanish into the whirlpool of slime that is the dollar. Everyone go about...
So your saying all this money is dissappearing into the coffers of hedge funds and nothing to do with subprime or the fact that banks chased...
Would you visibly panic in front of national television if you represented a major broker no matter how bad things are? Look at enron/bsc/lehman.
In the theme of hypocrisy, these words are being said by someone with a 3000+ post count =).
If the banks are doing this because of attractive interest rates (negative in real terms) then I can remember another time in recent history where...
Well it got worse, like everyone expected. http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/ Not only has bank reserves in the united...
This number looks comical. http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/
This is what happens when you focus purely ont he numbers and dont read into the stories behind them. The "#1" richest person in china, a 26...
Heres a thought - why not use the ignore button? Its a free forum for a reason, censoring people just because your opinion differs from theirs...
People often say that the Fed is not there to save the markets, but to provide stability in the economy. My opinion is that people who follow this...
Negative Bank Reserve Numbers. I knew they had fallen to 198 million but to go negative? Where is all this money going??? So essentially the banks...
Im fairly certain "all go bankrupt at the same time" is pretty illegal and against all sorts of regulations. Also even if they were, holders of...
Payrolls shrank, and unemployment rate went down because the overall labor pool, or the people who the census counts as being either employed or...
Are you serious? None of you have seen her without a desk in front of her have you. She is FAT, take a look at her on that late night show, I...
This correlates to my post earlier about Ben Stein and his theories on traders. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115595...
You guys do know there is no "Muffie Benson-Perella" right? The last name is an amalgam of two investment bank names. I think its safe to say that...
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