"Seems to me common sense you would inject some money into the system before Christmas. Duh. Banks always need lots of cash on hand. "
Banks need $ for Christmas shopping every year? I am interested in your logic. Please explain?
"Iraq threatened to do what Iran has threatened to do just before we went in looking for weapons of mass disappearance."
Author shows himself to be a moonbat and thus he may be safely ignored.
No my friend, you have shown yourself to be a moonbat and will be ignored. Iraq was in fact peddling oil for Euros to France and Germany. That's why we're there now. WMD was just a pretext and a false one at that. If the dollar loses it's status as world reserve currency (i.e. every commodity traded worldwide is traded in $US) our way of life ceases.
Perhaps a bigger-than-expected shopping season, to go with the bigger-than-expected economic growth.