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Monday, August 9, 2010

What will the Fed do to pump up an asset mania?

I don't know, talk a good game?  Say things about the opaque tools in their tool box?  Come right out and deliver a message of QE2 imminently?  Issue something like "the economy is recovering, albeit more slowly than we'd like to see so here is a vial of nitro"?

I don't know.  What I do know is that the financial markets are likely to follow the credit spread of sorts that is the ratio between shorter end treasuries and longer.  Here's the chart, updated.