2008-04-07 — financialweek.com
'The Federal Reserve revealed last week that a large portion of the $30 billion in Bear Stearns assets assumed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its bid to stop a run on the beleaguered investment bank is composed of mortgage-backed securities. But it’s still unclear how risky those securities are—and to what degree the Fed has taken on additional counterparty risk from what it described as “related hedges†within the illiquid Bear portfolio'
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bdc63 at 20:43 2008-06-02 said:
This forum is popular, isn't it?! You guys may have jumped the shark this time. PermalinkMe too 30 at 02:47 2008-06-03 said:
This forum is popular, isn't it?! You guys may have jumped the shark this time.You bet it is popular! :P People do not think it is a question, what kind of papers Fed took on its books. It is a pretty obvious answer to everybody here. Permalink
bdc63 at 03:31 2008-06-03 said:
I said FORUM, not THREAD. I was the first person to post in the forum with 112 pages of autopost topics, so it didn't seem very popular to me. The moderators have been adding more and more Forum categories. My 'jump the shark' comment was just questioning if this might be one too many. It was a bit of a joke -- sorry you didn't get it. PermalinkThis forum is popular, isn't it?! You guys may have jumped the shark this time.You bet it is popular! :P People do not think it is a question, what kind of papers Fed took on its books. It is a pretty obvious answer to everybody here.
Me too 30 at 22:04 2008-06-03 said:
Got it. It is funny that I thought it was a joke about Fed, but you actually joked about the News Discussion Forum. I looked around it, and I have got to add, it should be called Automatic Reply Forum. Since nobody alive posts here anything PermalinkI said FORUM, not THREAD. I was the first person to post in the forum with 112 pages of autopost topics, so it didn't seem very popular to me. The moderators have been adding more and more Forum categories. My 'jump the shark' comment was just questioning if this might be one too many. It was a bit of a joke -- sorry you didn't get it.This forum is popular, isn't it?! You guys may have jumped the shark this time.You bet it is popular! :P People do not think it is a question, what kind of papers Fed took on its books. It is a pretty obvious answer to everybody here.
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