Monday, Mar 17, 2008

A rescue for Bear Stearns, but the Fed is destroying the dollar

MoneyWeek: A rescue for Bear Stearns, but the Fed is destroying the dollar

Markets have tumbled on news that US investment bank Bear Stearns had to be bailed out by the Federal Reserve. From rate cuts to bailouts, the central bank's attempts to cushion the falling financial sector are actually making things worse...

Posted by damien @ 11:07 AM (463 views) Add Comment

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1. alan said...

"Rightly or wrongly, a view has taken hold that Washington is cynically debasing the coinage, hoping to export its day of reckoning through beggar-thy-neighbour policies". said Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/17/ccview117.xml

Monday, March 17, 2008 11:31AM Report Comment
 

2. happyrenterz said...

funny bank stock chart:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9470/techfl5.gif

Monday, March 17, 2008 12:35PM Report Comment
 

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