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To: phockthis
“On Thursday at about 11 o’clock in the morning the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two.

How would the Fed notice people making withdrawal requests from their money market accounts?

Nearly $3 trillion travels thru the Fedwire system every day. How would they even notice?

The Treasury opened up its window to help. It pumped $105 billion in the system

The Treasury doesn't have a "window".

The Federal Reserve does. You'd think something this important wouldn't get confused like that.

and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide; we were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation,

Close what operation?

54 posted on 03/01/2011 9:12:48 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; phockthis

Ah, Todds, the poster had a link to the article he posted.

Write to the writer of the article.
I’m sure they would be happy to answer your questions.


56 posted on 03/01/2011 9:37:00 AM PST by TruthConquers ( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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