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...the main market for all this debt is their own central banks...

That's the impression a lot of people have been getting lately, but no matter how big governments may want appear, they're just bit players compared to free people like you and I.  Right now the Fed's holding about $4.5T in debt and that's less than 8% the total U.S. debt market's $58.0T (page nine from here).

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For a minute I thought today was Friday and I was concerned about losing the whole week; I'm not a guy for saying "TGIF".  Instead I find we still got another day in the week and we can be Sure Happy It's Thursday! 

Like, futures got metals off -1.39% but that's down from last week's high.  Stock indexes look good +0.31% after yesterday's solid distribution having IBD now calling the outlook "market under pressure".   Reports now coming at us:

Initial Claims
Continuing Claims
Pending Home Sales
Natural Gas Inventories