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CHINA: Rumors Spread That their Central Bank Head Has Defected
Business Insider ^ | 08/30/2010 | Sourced from STRATFOR

Posted on 08/30/2010 9:09:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/30/2010 9:10:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Run, Zhou, run!!!
2 posted on 08/30/2010 9:12:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure he figured that if he stayed there was a firing squad in his future.


3 posted on 08/30/2010 9:12:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


4 posted on 08/30/2010 9:12:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Someone said that he might want to trade Him for Tim Geithner.


5 posted on 08/30/2010 9:13:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
flight-to-quality-alert.

Absent that, flight-to-dollar-alert. Then they'll get around to gold and hard goods.

6 posted on 08/30/2010 9:13:11 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (old dog. new tricks.)
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an approximately $430 billion loss on U.S. Treasury bonds

No one has lost a dime on Treasuries.....yet.

7 posted on 08/30/2010 9:14:11 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I love the smell of a Chicom meltdown in the morning.


8 posted on 08/30/2010 9:14:11 AM PDT by appeal2 (Don't steal, the government hates competition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Execute your officers if they lose a battle China. That’s always the way to get the best out of a group! Always been a strength of our military that the middle ranks can make tactical decisions on the ground and not be persecuted for them even if they don’t succeed as planned or hoped.


9 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:01 AM PDT by November 2010
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To: SeekAndFind

Execute your officers if they lose a battle China. That’s always the way to get the best out of a group! Always been a strength of our military that the middle ranks can make tactical decisions on the ground and not be persecuted for them even if they don’t succeed as planned or hoped.


10 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:16 AM PDT by November 2010
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To: SeekAndFind
Someone said that he might want to trade Him for Tim Geithner.

nice.

11 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:32 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (old dog. new tricks.)
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To: A.Hun

I was wondering about that - but then, if you sold them on the secondary market...


12 posted on 08/30/2010 9:17:51 AM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Hell, I’ll give ‘em little Timmy and the all the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Boards of Directors.


13 posted on 08/30/2010 9:20:12 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm picturing the scene in "The Dark Knight" when the chinese crime lord is telling the Gotham crime lords that their money is not safe in Gotham City.

"When can you move the money?"
"I already have."
"Where did you move it to?"
"No one can know but me."

14 posted on 08/30/2010 9:21:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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saying that because of an approximately $430 billion loss on U.S. Treasury bonds,

Makes no sense. First, we haven't defaulted so they haven't lost face value. Second, interest rates have been dropping recently, so bond values have been going up.

Maybe they are talking about taking a certain number of dollars they have through selling us stuff which are valued at a certain value of yuan at an artificially low exchange rate, buying bonds and those losing value in yuan when the exchange rate is adjusted from the previously artificially low value to a slightly less artificially low value. Then convert that number of yuan lost to dollars to get $430 billion. The problem is that they would have lost than anyway in U.S. bonds, U.S. currency or just about any European currency too.

15 posted on 08/30/2010 9:22:43 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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wondering about that too.

I wonder if they are actually talking about all the derivative garbage JPMC, etc.. sold them.

Heard about a year ago, it was “Screw you JPMC, WE NO PAY!” coming from the China government when the billions in losses on these types of investments were being made public.

But the 430 billion number sounds awfully high.


16 posted on 08/30/2010 9:25:46 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: appeal2
“I love the smell of a Chicom meltdown in the morning.”

Do you love the smell of a USA meltdown too? Because if they stop buying our bonds, we are next.

17 posted on 08/30/2010 9:28:59 AM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: SeekAndFind

they do play hardball over there dont they. can you even imagine Geithner “defecting” to somewhere?


18 posted on 08/30/2010 9:29:49 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: SeekAndFind

Rumors are that Zhou Xiaochuan along with both kidneys, liver, corneas and heart have fled.


19 posted on 08/30/2010 9:32:28 AM PDT by fso301
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RE: “Screw you JPMC, WE NO PAY!” coming from the China government


Let’s say the Chinese Government DID say that, what can JPMC do about it ? even more important — what will that do to China’s financial credibility in the future ?


20 posted on 08/30/2010 9:33:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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