Bond Market To Bernanke: F@&k You!
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Posted 2010-11-15 14:48
by Karl Denninger
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Bond Market To Bernanke: F@&k You!
 

Pretty loudly too; this is a "stop that right now or we're going to blow you to bits" sort of message.

That's a monster move in the five-year bond yield, nearly 10% today and almost 50% higher on yield since Ben started QE2.

Then there's this:

That's the 10 year.  Yield up almost 5% today and roughly 16% since Ben started QE2.

Note: Yields have their decimal places one to the right on these symbols - so the 10 year is 2.89%.

Remember, Bernanke told us all that his plan would bring down interest rates, including those for home loans.  In point of fact, just like last time with QE1, yields and thus interest rates for mortgages actually went up, not down.

To be blunt, Bernanke lied.  Again.

There was no intent to help homeowners.  There was no intent for rates to go down.  In point of fact the entire purpose behind QE2 was to try to let banks skim off the spread on their "transactions" to The Fed, therefore providing them a huge, tens-of-billions of dollars in windfall profits with which they could try to cover up their losses from bad loans.

That's all it is, and whether it destroys the economy and further depresses housing doesn't matter to Bernanke.

I said that all QE2 amounted to was yet another chapter in the looting scandal of America, and would result in more job loss, more cost-push margin compression and ultimately could lead to a profit and thus stock market collapse.

Bernanke doesn't give a damn about any of that.

All he cares about is bailing out his insolvent friends.

Throwing you, America, under the bus is just fine with him.

Wake up America... while there is still time.

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Randy123
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Notice the spin starting already...."rates are going up because the economy is improving."

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=....

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The Obama Administration and Congress are allowing/promoting this theft of the Citizenry.

Ben Bernanke and the FED are NOT making unilateral decisions.

This QE Regime is Centrally Planned in the truest sense of the phrase.

This is about Monetizing the Federal Deficit as much as it is about transferring the Private Capital of the Citizenry into the hands of the Oligarchy which have been inflating the Money Supply via the Fraudulent Origination of Loans against Fraudulent Valuations of Assets and absconding with the Fraudulently created Monies/Counterfeited Funds via Securitization Frauds.

Now that the Fraudulent Origination of Debt Money Creation is collapsing the Government Bureaucracy is engineering the Looting of the Citizenry to salvage the Counterfeit Fortunes of the Oligarchy -and thus Preserve the Oligarchy/Bureaucracy System.

The Congressional Financial Complex is neither simply a creature of Government Bureaucracy nor Banking Oligarchy: IT IS BOTH.

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BTW - what would it look like if a large holder of T's (China, Japan, etc.) started selling off their holdings? Could that be what QE2 is really all about? Maintaining a bid for T's while largest holders surrender them to PD's for repurchase at the Fed?

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yep economy is improving ecspecially in housing

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Checkmate by Bondzilla.

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Quote:

Checkmate by Bondzilla.


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Uh? Somebody call?

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I’m glad I got me some in the money TBT June 2011 calls this morning, on that mild pullback…this will only get worse…
I was going to wait until midweek, but action was screaming “F you Ben”, so I got my full fill…

As for Ireland, there will be IRA shooting every politician before bailout happens, I read somewhere (month or two ago) that they are going after banksters already…

nice fact figures in this article (just how bad it is), I'm not sure about the opinion...
"Europe stumbles blindly towards its 1931 moment"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comme....
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Just curious... why is this so horrible when we are not even to recent highs in the market? About a year ago it was up to almost 4% and nothing bad happened. Yea I know the rates are moving very fast but they have a long way to go.
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Chris, b/c housing needs all the help it can get...remember banks are still lying on what they have on their balance sheets.

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Here he comes!
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Randy I just think we need context considering we are going off darn near record lows, and we are still nowhere near even recent highs.
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I don't think we are done with low bond prices yet. But we definitely have seen a hit in MBS pricing. From my service today - The 30 year fixed FNMA required net yield is now at 4.12% the highest since July 15, up from 3.89% Friday. That basically tells you rates are up a quarter in rate in last two days. And 3/8 from the recent low.

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Chris,
Aside from housing which is dead anyway, Benny said QE will keep long term rate down not up, so he is proven wrong in a week!

What happens if rates keep rising into June 2011 (end of QE)…
Most of all, bond vigilantes are telling Fed that he can’t have a free lunch…and if you print more money, existing money is worth less, thus higher bond rate to achieve same return. However, with dollar rising, I think it risk of future inflation, lack of confidence and future money printing (as that is all this Fed knows)
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Did Ben think he could really push the 10 year under 2.5??? Really?


Maybe Ben wants interest rates to go back up and he will protect the government in the meanwhile by buying up all the treasuries. It was as theory I read the other day, I sorta makes since.
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Maybe Ben wants interest rates to go back up and he will protect the government in the meanwhile by buying up all the treasuries.


Ben's protection is the very reason rates are rising! Some bodyguard he is!
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Liked that avitar where Bernanke a bear was stepping on Bernanke's head. Replace the bear with Bondzilla.

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Chris, Higher interests = you qualify for less house. Meaning it will crush housing more.

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The next domino in the chain however is establishing new record highs all the time - that would be the national debt, a sum large enough that even modest normalization of interest rates will blow a huge smoking crater in the federal budget.

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Mschemeng: Good article!

Loved this little gem:
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The eurozone’s fiscal fund (European Financial Stability Facility) is fatally flawed. Like Alpinistas roped together, an ever-reduced core of solvent states are supposed to carry the weight on an ever-widening group of insolvent states dangling beneath them.
Sounds a bit like some of Gen's visualizations....

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I am just reminded by the famous quote "first by inflation then by deflation.." Maybe he has as all of his ducks in a row and he is ready the swing this ship back the other way. Ben has to know you can't inflate for ever. He can't be stupid can he?

Don't you understand.... higher interest rates don't hurt the Government if they have their own bank buying up all the treasuries.

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Maybe he knows he can't save it. So he will detonate it at a time of his own choosing when he feels he has the most protection around him to survive the **** storm that is to come.


I am taking a contrarian view here as an intellectual exercise, these people are master strategists. They are thinking several moves ahead. It is like a ****ing chess game. Never assume you know their motives.
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Does it mean that bond vigilantes are coming out and showing their middle-finger to BB ?

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