Our financial system is crumbling this week.

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TimeForGuinness wrote:
Michael wrote:
G. Keenan wrote:Who thinks the Euro will survive these member nation sovereign debt crises? If Portugal and Spain need bailouts where is the money going to come from? Germany again?

I mos def think it will survive, but it's possible a few members will get kicked out. Inflation be damned, Greece desperately needs to print money.
Any chance the greenback makes a comeback?
You and lukethedrifter need to find a different target.

When someone like Barry Ritholtz is calling for stop-losses, you could a 1987-style collapse like this coming.

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TabascoElvis wrote:Whoopsy-daisy
In one of the most dizzying half-hours in stock market history, the Dow plunged nearly 1,000 points before paring those losses in what possibly could have been a trader error.

According to multiple sources, a trader entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble
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Bartman now a trader?

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greenback44 wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
Michael wrote:
G. Keenan wrote:Who thinks the Euro will survive these member nation sovereign debt crises? If Portugal and Spain need bailouts where is the money going to come from? Germany again?

I mos def think it will survive, but it's possible a few members will get kicked out. Inflation be damned, Greece desperately needs to print money.
Any chance the greenback makes a comeback?
You and lukethedrifter need to find a different target.

When someone like Barry Ritholtz is calling for stop-losses, you could a 1987-style collapse like this coming.
I'm lost here greenback44, I don't think I have ever targeted you.

I was just asking that if the Euro is in flux, would more people find safety in the US dollar.

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TimeForGuinness wrote:
greenback44 wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
Michael wrote:
G. Keenan wrote:Who thinks the Euro will survive these member nation sovereign debt crises? If Portugal and Spain need bailouts where is the money going to come from? Germany again?

I mos def think it will survive, but it's possible a few members will get kicked out. Inflation be damned, Greece desperately needs to print money.
Any chance the greenback makes a comeback?
You and lukethedrifter need to find a different target.

When someone like Barry Ritholtz is calling for stop-losses, you could a 1987-style collapse like this coming.
I'm lost here greenback44, I don't think I have ever targeted you.

I was just asking that if the Euro is in flux, would more people find safety in the US dollar.
I think he's joking. I think. See the above bolded.

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Good grief, if I can't riff on a Cronos69 theme, then nothing is safe. Maybe I should've mentioned the smoke monster.

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lukethedrifter wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
greenback44 wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
Michael wrote:
G. Keenan wrote:Who thinks the Euro will survive these member nation sovereign debt crises? If Portugal and Spain need bailouts where is the money going to come from? Germany again?

I mos def think it will survive, but it's possible a few members will get kicked out. Inflation be damned, Greece desperately needs to print money.
Any chance the greenback makes a comeback?
You and lukethedrifter need to find a different target.

When someone like Barry Ritholtz is calling for stop-losses, you could a 1987-style collapse like this coming.
I'm lost here greenback44, I don't think I have ever targeted you.

I was just asking that if the Euro is in flux, would more people find safety in the US dollar.
I think he's joking. I think. See the above bolded.
My bad, greenie. LOL...didn't even pick up on that. It was a long night with a crying baby.

Funny though, I was actually looking forward to your response on the issue.

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While everyone rushes to buy gold, I'm thinking it would be good to sell short eurodollars. Maybe.

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I am not going back to read this, but it looks like this all started with a trading error. Broker entered billion instead of million for a P&G trade. Oops.

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slide_into_first wrote:While everyone rushes to buy gold, I'm thinking it would be good to sell short eurodollars. Maybe.
Buffet would just say, Buy Buy Buy.

I joked during the first crash every time it dropped 1000 points I was gonna take out a loan and buy into an index fund. If I was a broker I'da been buying something the whole way down yesterday.

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JackofDiamonds wrote:I am not going back to read this, but it looks like this all started with a trading error. Broker entered billion instead of million for a P&G trade. Oops.
Someone made a lot of money on that error.

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