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From BNP, courtesy of Leo Kolivakis
1. Goldmans calls for $2 trillion
2. Rumours fly around that the Fed may eventually do 4 trillion
3. China starts complaining that the Fed is about to purchase $1trn of USTs despite buying a similar amount themselves
4. Xerox is up 38% since Jackson Hole
5. Your Mom calls you asking about QE
6. IBM issues a super-long bond
7. Mexico issues a really super-duper-long bond
8. You find out that both these organisations have a guy who had Bernanke as a thesis advisor in their Economics
PhD program before joining their respective Treasury departments
9. Jersey shore tourist tat-shops sell QE wallets three times the size of normal ones
10. The guy that trades European telecoms on the credit floor explains to you how QE works
11. The CDI (Cab Driver Index) flashes red when your cab driver starts using QE to justify his gold ETF position
12. A word score of 36 in Scrabble is nicknamed 'scoring a QE' in old folks homes
13. Your FX sales bit-on-the-side starts giving you minute by minute updates on 1030s, but doesn't know what '1030s' is
14. Handing out an extra 200,000 to all players when anyone goes bankrupt is now mandatory in the offical rules of Monopoly
15. The DPI (Dinner party Index) flashes red when you are in the Hamptons and the heir to the
DuPonts tells you how much more QE is needed
16. Your Mom calls you back and asks if she should put her 401k into Gold to hedge against inflation
17. Bill Gross goes on the rampage calling the Treasury a ponzi scheme
18. The UK decides to privatise the Royal Mint
19. Your Mom calls again and explains how she expects 500bn over the next 6 months..............
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