[rabscuttle385]

Well, well, well...look what the cat dragged in this morning...

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[TigerLikesRooster]

Hmm.. is this a new black hole? Or is it something we already know but turning out to be more serious?

Many big transactions are "dark" these days. We have dark pools and dark liquidity, too. Finance morphed into a cload-and-dagger style playground. Market transparency in my ass.

The recovery of financial markets should introduce more transparency. Instead, we have more and more opaque and secretive markets. This is not the way to promote well-functioning free market. This is another way of saying that we are totally cooked and they are hiding many ugly secrets to cover up the true magnitude of crisis and postpone the inevitable fall with tax payers' money or money printing press. No good would be coming out of this.

[Harrius Magnus]

I take active steps NOT to be a conspiracy buff, and to expose the fools that are. However, anyone with a brain should be very much aware that a new age is upon us, and that we talk much about preserving America. Meanwhile, it is quietly being dismantled behind our backs. Politicians are very much complicit in this. What are you going to do when you wake up and America is gone...

[lainie]

fyi

The Fed's collateral "absolutely should be made public," said Mark Cuban, an activist investor, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team and the creator of the Web site BailoutSleuth.com, which focuses on the secrecy shrouding the Fed's moves.

[happygrl]

This is going to turn ugly if the Fed does not respond.