Interesting idea: a 'Pump and Dump' into Treasuries

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Re: Interesting idea: a 'Pump and Dump' into Treasuries

I'm not sure. I'm not 100% convinced of the tinfoil hat theory because treasuries with no return on investment and a downgrade in rating (less secure) and the added inflationary pressure that this excess will create, would make the pendulum swing the other way at some point (after the initial panic has subsided). It could ferociously swing the other way causing a bond market default or, at the very least, very high interest rates (which is what I see coming, and not just for the US).

Exactly! I'm firmly convinced they are building up the momentum for the next swing. By the time it starts, everybody will be in deflation hedge configuration ...

If they only slightly overdo it and create merely mild inflation to counteract the credit deflation then you may have a point. From the "all planned by the FED long ago" perspective, then this is a very dangerous game to play.

I see you get my point. The second sentence needs reconstruction because this is a very dangerous game to play only for us, not for them.

Unless of course their plan is to wipe Amercia off the map economically. I can see a more level, but much reduced, global playing field.

They can't do that because they need to harvest all that returning capital from overseas. They need to have America at least as the one-eyed man among the blind.

Or if you really want to go tinfoil hat sinister, then you could argue that they want to produce a gloabl economic collapse to wipe out most of the population through disease and starvation. A culling so the pop can be managed better in terms of its environment. But this is really off the wall.

That is completely tinfoil. They wouldn't do that ...it would be bad for business, bad for profits ...