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Treasury To Sell $112 Billion In Notes Next Week
MarketWatch/FoxBusinessNews ^ | 9/17/09 | Deborah Levine

Posted on 09/17/2009 9:30:18 AM PDT by Kartographer

The Treasury Department said Thursday it will issue $112 billion in notes next week. A record $43 billion in 2-year notes will be sold on Tuesday, followed by $40 billion in 5-year debt on Wednesday. The final offering will be $49 billion in 7-year notes on Thursday. The amounts are each $1 billion more than last month -- the most ever for each security -- and in line with estimates of some of Wall Street's biggest bond dealers. The government will also sell $85 billion in shorter-term bills. After the announcement, 2-year note yields, which move inversely to prices, remained up 1 basis point on the day, at 1%, the highest this month.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: thefed
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To: adm5

what could go wrong?

lol.

everything


21 posted on 09/17/2009 9:43:57 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Kartographer

22 posted on 09/17/2009 9:44:17 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I was watching Beck yesterday and it appears the government is buying its own bonds.

What do you mean, "it appears"? That is exactly what they are doing!

23 posted on 09/17/2009 9:46:57 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: Nervous Tick

They have plans for a panda reserve already drawn up.


24 posted on 09/17/2009 9:47:29 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: maggief
"Who is buying them? Us?'

It sure isn't China, Russia, or any other country. We are just printing money that has absolutely no value, which dillutes the value of what's in cerculation. This is what causes hyper inflation, yet some out there think we are going to have deflation.

25 posted on 09/17/2009 9:47:31 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Kartographer

Another millstone around America’s neck.


26 posted on 09/17/2009 9:47:31 AM PDT by cvq3842 (I don't ask what my country can do for me - I ask my government to STOP doing things TO me!)
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To: fujimoh

>> Isn’t this the same as a check kiting scheme which is against the law ... writing a check from one account to another and neither have any money?

Sure it is. Try it yourself if you don’t believe me. They’ll lock you up and throw away the key.

But the Federal government crooks are special. They got away with embezzling all the funds in the Social Security and Medicare “lock box”... which emboldened them to attempt even more lucrative white collar crimes!


27 posted on 09/17/2009 9:47:45 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: GeronL
and who in their right mind is going to buy these???

If nobody else shows up to bid, the primary dealers will buy them.

Then, a couple of days later, the Fed will quietly sneak in the back door and buy them from the primary dealers with printed dollars.

It's already happened a couple of times this year.

28 posted on 09/17/2009 9:48:32 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Tarpon
I suppose liberals don’t think this affects them.

From what I've seen of them, they don't care if their life sucks, just as long as everyone else's does too.

29 posted on 09/17/2009 9:49:31 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: Abathar

>> They have plans for a panda reserve already drawn up.

Pandas are cute! I’d like to visit Yerrowstone someday and see them. I hope I can scrape together the $20,000 (in gold, no paper please) that a ticket will cost in a few years. Do you think I’ll need a chinese visa?


30 posted on 09/17/2009 9:50:28 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: TChris

>> From what I’ve seen of them, [liberals] don’t care if their life sucks, just as long as everyone else’s does too.

NAILED IT


31 posted on 09/17/2009 9:51:09 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Abathar
I guess the Hoover dam and Yellowstone will be put up for collateral and have a lien placed on them soon...

National Parks, Forrest Serivce land, Bureau of Land Management land, National Monuments, etc. have been used as collateral on the national debt for years.

32 posted on 09/17/2009 9:51:40 AM PDT by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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To: Kartographer

So, who’s buying?

The Chinese and the Saudis would be NUTS to invest in this check-kiting scheme. They hold the paper, while the Treasury scurries around to round up enough money to cover the interest on the LAST sale of fiat money dumped on the world market.

The world is crossing a chasm on a rope bridge, and somebody is over there on the other end chopping off the rope where it is anchored. Looking back, somebody else is hacking through the rope where it is tethered on the OTHER end.

We are so screwed,


33 posted on 09/17/2009 9:51:55 AM PDT by alloysteel (....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
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To: maggief

Uncle Ben will crank up the printing presses and buy them. Eventually, though, the citizens end paying for the bonds through the inflation tax.


34 posted on 09/17/2009 9:52:54 AM PDT by kenn5
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To: TexasFreeper2009
"I was talking to my wife this morning about possibly puting our kids college savings into metals (not gold)" Commodities have to go up some time. It seems that the rest of the world is starting to move, it's just our economy that isn't, thanks to the dummy in the whitehouse.
Commodity markets are moving upwards slowly, which show there is increased activity in Asian markets driving up demand for raw materials. Copper have a good record for shooting up quickly.
35 posted on 09/17/2009 9:54:17 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: DuncanWaring

but $112 billion could hardly be quiet


36 posted on 09/17/2009 9:54:44 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Abathar

“I guess the Hoover dam and Yellowstone will be put up for collateral and have a lien placed on them soon...”

I’m open for buying the Grand Canyon and opening the worlds largest dump!!!


37 posted on 09/17/2009 9:56:14 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: c-b 1

You’re just full of good news today, I didn’t know that. :(


38 posted on 09/17/2009 9:56:29 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Nervous Tick
" I guess ... Yellowstone will be put up for collateral
... you mean “Yerrowstone People’s Park”?

Can't. The Un already owns that.

39 posted on 09/17/2009 9:58:11 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Kartographer
Treasury To Sell $112 Billion In Notes Next Week

Treasury To Buy Back 112 Billion in Notes in Two Weeks.

40 posted on 09/17/2009 9:58:24 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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