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The Federal Reserve currently purchases $40 billion per month in an effort to keep mortgage rates low and stimulate the housing market recovery (or bubble?). Over the past year, the RMBS index has earned -0.55% in spite of (or because of) The Fed’s $40 billion per month in agency RMBS purchases. And if we compare the BRMBS index to PIMCO’s vaunted total return fund, you will see similar performance until September 2013 when RMBS rallied in terms of price compared to PIMCO’s Total Return Fund. So, despite The Fed’s $40 billion of agency MBS per month, the Bloomberg MBS index...

Plaintiff's Motion for Entry of Protective Order at 7. As grounds for it's motion, Plaintiff points to the embarrassment GMAC and it's employees suffered, and will continue to suffer, from the posting of excerpts from Stephan's deposition transcript on an Internet blog. The Court is not persuaded that the Plaintiff has shown the requisite "good cause" to justify entry of a protective order in this case.