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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1661710, member: 41665&quot;]<font face="Arial"></font></p><p><font face="Arial">What?! I&#039;m sorry, no. That&#039;s the equivalent of a grand conspiracy against Silver. </font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">Look at your link, dated April 2, <u>nearly a MONTH after the rally started</u>. The rules didn&#039;t go into effect for another 2.5 months. &quot;All three FSPs will be effective for periods ending after June 15, 2009&quot;</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><i>Marking-to-market </i>is exactly what we should DO, not avoid (??!) US (crap) paper is worth-less - many hollowed-out, non-productive companies perhaps less than 25% their current &quot;valuations&quot; - but this didn&#039;t cause the deflationary downdraft of 2008-9 either. We did NOT have price discovery, so we did NOT see the bottom... the much-hated bailouts only papered over reality (the maw)<i> once again*</i>, that&#039;s all. </font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">Reflationary bailing fast-&amp;-furious, (or &#039;Things that make you go <i>Hmmmm</i>!&#039;) : </font></p><p><font face="Arial">Flashback #1, when that <i>Republican </i>President got on teevee and said he wanted all Americans to own a home: <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021015-7.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021015-7.html" rel="nofollow">http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021015-7.html</a></font></p><p><font face="Arial">Flashback #2, when that <i>Republican </i>President sent every mouth-breathing taxpayer a check hahahaha, &quot;Free Money!&quot; <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2008-02-13/politics/bush.stimulus_1_rebate-checks-economic-stimulus-act-stimulus-bill" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://articles.cnn.com/2008-02-13/politics/bush.stimulus_1_rebate-checks-economic-stimulus-act-stimulus-bill" rel="nofollow">http://articles.cnn.com/2008-02-13/politics/bush.stimulus_1_rebate-checks-economic-stimulus-act-stimulus-bill</a></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">Utter insanity.&nbsp; Can someone explain to me why Americans are so stupid they cannot see the incredible ruse unfolding before their very own eyes, time &amp; time again? And now we (collectively) imagine &#039;the problem&#039;s been fixed&#039; ... by shuffling deck-chairs around the Titantic&#039;s listing stern? Good grief: GET A GRIP! Oh sure, the next &#039;paper-over&#039; event (2014-6?) will also probably succeed too. But when the major pension funds start failing (c.2017) they won&#039;t be able to change the rules fast enough - Boomers will NEED that money for cat-food eventually. <i>Eventually </i>is a-comin, people.</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">This (Credit) Paper Crisis began with disinflation/deflation in 2000-2 and gained momentum in 2007-8: it was NOT fixed, we are just awaiting The Next Leg Down. Don&#039;t be deceived by the MSM otherwise. </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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