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  • My guess as to when the current market downturn will end and markets will recover. (Vanity)

    08/04/2011 9:59:33 AM PDT · by jdsteel · 51 replies
    U.S. Treasury Direct ^ | 8.4.11 | jdsteel
    $16 Billion of 30 year notes being auctioned on the 11th. By total coincidence I think the realization that we aren't going to hell in a handbasket will happen right around that time.
  • Obama could stir a Tea Party crisis

    07/18/2011 10:55:28 AM PDT · by No One Special · 31 replies
    Asia Times ^ | July 19, 2011 | Spengler
    President Barack Obama's best hope of re-election lies in provoking Republicans to force the United States into technical default, engineering a brief but severe financial crisis in order to appear as crisis-manager-in-chief. The Tea Party movement may be marching into a political ambush, in which Obama will be able to portray the born-again budget-cutters as irresponsible fanatics who threaten to tip America into a new depression. The now unpopular president then would assume the role of national savior in time of crisis. What would happen if August arrives without an increase in the US debt ceiling? There is no good...
  • Something Very Strange Is Happening With Treasuries

    02/25/2010 3:19:03 PM PST · by Cheap_Hessian · 6 replies · 1,800+ views
    Seeking Alpha ^ | February 24, 2010 | Graham Summers
    There are times in life when one witnesses something so outside the scope of normal experience, that at first you don’t see it. Captain Cook’s diaries tell us that upon first seeing his ships offshore in Australia, the aborigines expressed “neither surprise nor concern.” Cook notes that it was not until he and his men approached the shore in smaller, more familiar vessels that the villagers reacted, arming themselves as “the sight of men in small boats was comprehensible to them: it meant invasion.” Well, I had a similar experience during yesterday’s bond auction. Before going into the details, we...
  • 5-Year Auction Generates Weak Response; Treasurys Fall

    07/29/2009 10:21:25 AM PDT · by Cheap_Hessian · 6 replies · 381+ views
    Reuters ^ | 29 Jul 2009
    Treasurys fell after an auction of 5-year government debt saw another tepid response, with investors getting a yield of 2.689 percent on a swell of $39 billion in supply. The results come a day after a similarly weak auction of 2-year notes showing a reticence for government debt as a record supply of $115 billion comes on line this week. The bid gathered a bid-to-call ratio of 1.92 against the recent normal of 2.20. Treasury debt prices had gained earlier as lower stocks bolstered government debt's safe-haven appeal, although investors were on edge over a record amount of new debt...