2008-09-22typepad.com

"The combination of spending $700 billion on soured mortgage-related assets and providing $400 billion to guarantee money-market mutual funds will boost U.S. borrowing as much as $1 trillion, according to Barclays Capital interest-rate strategist Michael Pond in New York. While the rescue may restore investor confidence to battered financial markets, traders will again focus on the twin budget and current-account deficits and negative real U.S. interest rates."



Comments:

drboyd at 13:11 2008-09-23 said:
Of course it's a threat to the dollar!

They're gonna print a trillion dollars and hand it out to Hank's frat brothers.

Kiss your savings good-bye. :evil: Permalink

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