Comments on: Eight Fed Notes http://alephblog.com/2008/04/25/eight-fed-notes/ Helping Institutions and Ordinary People Invest Better by Focusing on Risk Control Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:12:05 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: flow5 http://alephblog.com/2008/04/25/eight-fed-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-17511 flow5 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:00:06 +0000 http://alephblog.com/?p=664#comment-17511 The Fed normally tests an upcoming FFR cut. The repo stop-out rate has been trading c. 2% prior to any announcement. If there is a cut, or even if there is not a cut, interest rates in generally, have most likely bottomed. I wish everybody thought like you about investment bank regulation. The Fed normally tests an upcoming FFR cut. The repo stop-out rate has been trading c. 2% prior to any announcement. If there is a cut, or even if there is not a cut, interest rates in generally, have most likely bottomed.

I wish everybody thought like you about investment bank regulation.

]]> By: VennData http://alephblog.com/2008/04/25/eight-fed-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-17503 VennData Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:41:02 +0000 http://alephblog.com/?p=664#comment-17503 "...can’t they track actual eurodollar trading the way Fed funds gets done, and then just publish an average rate?" Indeed. Sort of reminds one of no-docs lending... well, not 'sort of.' “…can’t they track actual eurodollar trading the way Fed funds gets done, and then just publish an average rate?”

Indeed. Sort of reminds one of no-docs lending… well, not ‘sort of.’

]]> By: Sam http://alephblog.com/2008/04/25/eight-fed-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-17502 Sam Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:30:38 +0000 http://alephblog.com/?p=664#comment-17502 Regarding another blowup: Anecdotally, I was speaking with a gentleman( distributor) who sells fuel in a rural location, and asked about the effect of fuel increases on sales. Not much effect on volume, he said, but alot of folks were now having to go through several credit cards before they found one that was not maxed out. So David, is the gun loaded and ready to fire on a credit card meltdown when the last card has maxed out and this person has a reduction in disposable income later this year as a result of the recession, from the loss of overtime, or a layoff of a spouse? Regarding another blowup: Anecdotally, I was speaking with a gentleman( distributor) who sells fuel in a rural location, and asked about the effect of fuel increases on sales. Not much effect on volume, he said, but alot of folks were now having to go through several credit cards before they found one that was not maxed out. So David, is the gun loaded and ready to fire on a credit card meltdown when the last card has maxed out and this person has a reduction in disposable income later this year as a result of the recession, from the loss of overtime, or a layoff of a spouse?

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