Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Watch out for when QE2 ends on June 30

http://www.dailywealth.com/1752/The-Beginning-of-the-Panic


"The Beginning of the Panic

By Porter Stansberry 
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 

In the next few weeks, our country will enter a period without precedence in our experience.
 
On June 30, the Federal Reserve has pledged to cease buying U.S. Treasury bonds. This is the second time since the financial crisis it has intervened in the Treasury market in a major way. The program of buying new Treasury issues has been dubbed "quantitative easing II" (QE2).
 
We'd wager not one in 1,000 Americans has any idea (or at least any real understanding) of what has been going on in the market for U.S. Treasury bonds since the financial crisis. For the last nine months, the Fed has been printing up new dollars and buying huge amounts of newly issued debt from the U.S. Treasury – $600 billion of bonds. And these purchases followed a $1.75 trillion program of quantitative easing that ran from March 2009 to March 2010.
 
It is no exaggeration to say that a printing press has kept our economy going for the last two years. But what will happen when the printing stops?"  (Read the article for more.)


Here is another article commenting on the article above.
http://www.shtfplan.com/forecasting/panic-to-ensue-we-are-about-to-enter-a-period-without-precedence-in-american-history_06082011

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