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Fed POMO Cancelled Due To "Technical Difficulties"

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This is not the first time the Fed has had to delay a POMO due to "technical difficulties." It is however, the first time this has happened during what at least on the surface is stock market ramp, even if USTs are now higher on the day, and French bonds lower since Friday...

Source: NY Fed

 

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Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:17 | 2071252 LawsofPhysics
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Buy the dip?  Ha ha.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:20 | 2071269 Pladizow
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Technical Difficulties?

Was Obama's ass not big enogh for Tim & Ben at the same time?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071282 NotApplicable
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Somebody obviously forgot to load the bazooka. Those monday holidays will do that every time.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:25 | 2071294 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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I think you mean those Tuesday hangovers from Manhatten stripclubs will do it every time.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:27 | 2071303 Hard1
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Probably Brian Sack found a hole in the firewall and finally got access to that porn site.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:30 | 2071309 BaBaBouy
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Due To Technical Difficulties, ALL Further Physical GOLD sales to the public have been Abandoned!

 

Note: ALL Paper GOLD Products are unaffected and measures are in place to meet any and all Sales Demand...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:51 | 2071565 Manthong
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Filter failure at the Fed.

The server and network wiring at the Fed was affected by the  H2S and methanethiol that is characteristic of all of the Fed's operation.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9934757

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:28 | 2071302 BaBaBouy
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Pomo This ...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:31 | 2071319 Muddy1
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You saw the recent video of Michelle dancing too?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:44 | 2071550 sullymandias
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That was more painful to watch than I had expected.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:10 | 2071622 Stoploss
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Just means there must have been a bunch of sell orders pop on the spoo. No worries, just bump it back an hour so the effect will last into close.

 

Ben, i wish you would do something, either print, shit, or get off the pot, iv'e got your ass dead to rights, just need you to make a   m o v e. Anything.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:46 | 2071367 slaughterer
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Buy the dip.  Heck,

Buy the pop.

Buy anything that moves.

It can only go up.

We have your back.

Sincerely,

Bernanke and Draghi.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:14 | 2071655 Eireann go Brach
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Bernanke slept in and it was his turn to swing by Staples to pick up the ink cartridges!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:17 | 2071254 besodemuerte
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*grabs popcorn*

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:20 | 2071270 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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C is sinking like a cheap oceanliner.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:21 | 2071278 HungrySeagull
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I'll have mine on the rocks please.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:34 | 2071321 The Limerick King
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I'm constantly sipping on Jack

Awaiting the false-flag attack

I need some bad news

To confirm my views

Perhaps I should start using crack

 

Follow me on Twitter (if you dare): @TheLimerickKing

My apologies for this shameless plug, but I've developed a bit of a Twitter fetish......(among others!)

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:37 | 2071337 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Fuck anyone who can't handle a plug.  I don't get why anyone cares that people post their shitty blogs up here.  If you don't want to read them, don't click on them!

And if I twatted I would follow you.  Instead I will have to hope you continue to post here.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:50 | 2071376 The Limerick King
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No worries there my friend....ZH is my home....enlightenment is a wonderful thing....(I think...)

Has anybody seen that blue pill?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:53 | 2071383 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Enlightenment, a bitch to Kant, a wonderful thing for you

As for pills, I would suggest that you stick with red, not blue

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:28 | 2071498 CrockettAlmanac.com
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"To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us isn't too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?"

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:31 | 2071511 Malachi Constant
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enlightenment is a wonderful thing

Enlightenment in historical sense means conquering nature, replacing it with our own understanding: replacing justice with laws, peace with security, happiness with net worth. Enlightenment = bringing of light. "Bearer of light" is Lucifer in Latin. Also known as Prometheus and the serpent from the Bible. It is doubtful that this extremely I-focused philosophy can be healthy and sustainable, let alone wonderful.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:41 | 2071539 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Why you got to hate on the dude that jumped up and grabbed the fire?  Do you really think the god in that story would have let it happen if he (it, whatever) didn't want it to?

The problem is that no one understands that these stories are all metaphorical.   They are myths, created by us to give examples of life. 

You would rather everyone remain passive and not learn, from their choices, mistakes, what have you.  It's fucking life, grow a pair.

The buddha became enlightened and then he realized he was hungry.  Should he not have eaten?  Should he have given his bread to a child only to die of starvation?  One must live, no matter what comes to pass.  If the fire hadn't been snatched by Prometheus, someone else would have taken it eventually.  Should you be his judge?  Or should you let god do it?

This is like analyzing a reality show...."Oh no she didn't!"  Who gives a fuck?!  Live your own life.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:04 | 2071605 Manthong
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“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.” 
- Carlos Castaneda

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:36 | 2071752 Uchtdorf
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Enlightenment is everything until the FEMA camp guys show up to give you a tour of your new room.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:44 | 2071366 GeneMarchbanks
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Take it from me, crack is not all it's cracked up to be.

* Had to make it rhyme, not sure you could understand it otherwise.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:10 | 2071427 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Crack is whack!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:18 | 2071459 The Limerick King
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Beware the Brian Sack Back Crack Attack!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:01 | 2071595 Wakanda
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Sack's a hack.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:19 | 2071465 SMG
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That was awesome!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:26 | 2071486 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Not bad but change:

"To confirm my views."

to

"To confirm all my views."

Scans better.

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:45 | 2071553 Smiley
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Very nice, thank you for sharing!

I'll be keeping an eye out for your posts now.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:24 | 2072089 Jonas Parker
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The King had a fetish for Twitter
Which made his comments sound bitter
But no bad news came
So much to his shame
His fetish changed from Twitter to Twatter!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:24 | 2071291 qussl3
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Funny you mention that.

WFC does decent and you get non stop coverage of the "beat" on the finnews, but when C faceplants - bloody crickets.

Dont know how the jackholes can keep a straight face.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:34 | 2071322 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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The pages of history concrening finance in the 20th/21st centruries is going to read....

"WTF?!"

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:11 | 2071434 dracos_ghost
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Because if retail investors realized they are being had, there would be no financial services industry and investing would gravitate to scratch off lottery tickets which have a better payout. Ergo, keep the BS flowing that all is well, all is well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:51 | 2071378 Roy T
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Unimpressed with the sinking, given the huge run into earnings and the start of the year.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:55 | 2071388 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Down over 6% now....

I thought a rational market priced everything in?

Hmmm....

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:35 | 2071516 mick_richfield
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1. A rational market prices everything in.

2. This market does not price everything in.

3. This market is not: ___________________

 

A. rational.

B. real

C. using enough HFT

D. very much fun

E. none of the above

F. all of the above (except for 'E')

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:54 | 2072594 Money 4 Nothing
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E... 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:18 | 2071256 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Turn the machines back on!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:18 | 2071257 KingPin 999
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Surprised no one has commented on short term SHIBOR blowing out again.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:20 | 2071263 SheepDog-One
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Who cares, bullshit stocks are green! Everyone in the Conga line hurry!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:22 | 2071280 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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After she won yesterdays pagent, Miss America told Aaron Rogers to call her!  Haha!  Ha!  Ha.....

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:21 | 2071279 qussl3
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CNY.

PBOC has been pumping like mad though.

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:33 | 2071325 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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So much fiat, so little time....

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:18 | 2071258 GeneMarchbanks
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Technicals don't matter...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:15 | 2071397 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Technicals do matter:  They show the blatant disrigard for capitalism, for fair chance and opportunity.  They show how the PWG plays both sides of the market:  cratering it for political reasons and shoring it up to support the Fiat Ponzi.  Technicals show the blatant manipulation and how the PWG keeps the floor under the markets by spinning gold like Rumplestiltskin for loan to each other over and over again. 

It also shows how little an impact central planning has at this stage in the game, for they must keep printing, and printing, and printing.....

Loaning gold, printing fiat, loaning gold and printing fiat......over and over and over....

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071260 SheepDog-One
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Theyre probably too preoccupied with pumping bullshit stocks right now. After 1:15, it will be easier for the FED to focus on sopping up bullshit Gubmint debt like sausage gravy at a truck stop.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071281 Dr. Engali
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It seems that technical issues are happening with a greater frequency.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071283 mantrid
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run out of ink

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071284 Paul Krugman
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Super proud today. Made some improvements to my Neo Keynesian computer model and it proved I'm a genius. I jerked off all over the keyboard in excitement.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071285 VanillAnalyst
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Bernanke; "What do you mean the printer is out of paper!"

 

Long SPLS!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2071286 LongSoupLine
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Translation:

 

POMO has been postponed...the ink is still wet with today's high humidity.  Drying will be complete by 1 pm for scheduled continuation of ponzi operations.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:42 | 2071356 Randall Cabot
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POnziMO

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:25 | 2071289 Mercury
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The money printing NYU intern didn't make it into work today....and no one knows his Bloomberg login.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:32 | 2071300 Imminent Crucible
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We're doomed. The Chief Credit Sorcerer died and his apprentice hasn't learned the spell that makes the money appear out of the effluvium.

I bet Harry Potter could help out: "Denarius Manifestus!"

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:28 | 2071306 Stuart
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sign of the times:  who knows if this reason is credible.   What a sad statement that is.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:29 | 2071312 Cassandra Syndrome
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Skynet becoming self aware?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:38 | 2071345 GeneMarchbanks
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Not as self aware as these fine South Carolina voters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QhB-Lk9T98

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:02 | 2071407 pine_marten
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Bussed in union thugs.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:36 | 2071527 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Ron handled that perfectly. He used those who booed as an example of people who can't wait to get into another war. And those who cheered at the end seemed to outnumber those who booed. It's also funny that people who likely consider themselves to be conservative Christians were booing Jesus' concept of The Golden Rule.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:30 | 2071313 yogibear
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Every timer the master money printer, Ben Bernanke, tries to add the extra 0's at the end his economics model pukes and takes an exception. He's trying to work it out with the programmers in India.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:33 | 2071324 SheepDog-One
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'Hello.....dis Peggy...'

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:35 | 2071334 Imminent Crucible
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I always get "A-Lo. Dees ees Vonessa."

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:48 | 2071340 s2man
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Is this the failed auction Tyler inferred was coming in the recent article on Credit spreads?  We know what happened after that...

Edit: Found it

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/feds-balance-sheet-unwind-about-crash-mark...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:41 | 2071354 Flakmeister
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Paper jam??

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:43 | 2071360 Kaiser Sousa
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hit me when the headline reads....

"Fed POMO Cancelled Due to Bitch Made Banker Getting His Ass Shot Off"...

until then, stay pissed my freinds...stay pissed...................

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:47 | 2071369 SmoothCoolSmoke
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Why print?  Just "talking' stocks higher seems to be working just fine.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:47 | 2071371 tahoebumsmith
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Looks like Timmay isn't going to pay any bills this morning... At  -124 Billion in the till and counting they better get the perpetual ponzi machine running again before anybody takes notice. Maybe they should suspend POMO permanently seeing how Ben vowed he would never monetize the Nation's debt.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:48 | 2071372 adr
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Sorry I'm still puzzling over Tesla's giant dump after hours on Friday completely made up on open today. WTF.

The entire market consists of insiders buying hoping the Fed will give their corporations giant QE gifts so they can authorize buybacks at higher prices to cash out big. It isn't even a ponzi anymore. It has morphed into a Pavlov.

Hit the buy stock button get a treat boy!!!!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:54 | 2071387 Alex Kintner
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Shhhh! The robots are napping.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:04 | 2071412 DCFusor
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Saw that too, thanks for the link to the original.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:22 | 2071474 i-dog
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".... or it intends to pursue the debts in some other fashion ...."

ruh-roh. Kamp FEMA awaits......

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:21 | 2071469 Quinvarius
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I suspect something is being done to invalidate the need for collections agencies in the near term.  It is election year.  Gotta do the big refi.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:01 | 2071403 carbonmutant
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I got your technical difficulty right here...lol

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:58 | 2071588 Wakanda
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add NYC crotch grab

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:11 | 2071432 Johnk
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This was the original ZH link (I still have the story loaded), but now the link takes you to the ZH main page.  Probably just a glitch, but...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-have-banks-been-robosigning-credit-cards-too

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:44 | 2071978 DollarMenu
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I think it is gone.

I can not find it anywhere.

It was an interesting story.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:23 | 2071478 FearLess_FLY
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They cannot cancel.  That is a POMO   NO NO

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:31 | 2071504 AC_Doctor
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Government lackeys out of $$$-quick call Binky Ben, he will just create it electronically.  Looks like the FED, PPT and their MOMO's are pulling every dirty trick in the book to keep the real money (precious metals AU, AG) down today...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:36 | 2071522 Texas Ginslinger
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A fed chief recently visited Nantucket
He said; ' above all, I'll keep propping the market'
He smiled with a grin
As he wiped ink from his chin
'If QE'ing the economy is a bust, then f*** it'

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:24 | 2071695 DarthVaderMentor
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Not good news. This delivers a terrible perception for the markets. 

Technical difficulties over along weekend? if it's true then it could be VERY SERIOUS. The Fed got hacked? Testing new stuff and they can't go back?

It could be just all BS and the Fed is hiding something, but that would not be as bad as a hacking of the Fed. Maybe the banks have decided to hoard and defy Bendover Ben.

Not good and it could be a big problem.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:14 | 2071870 rsnoble
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Your thesis sounds like Linus in the pumpkin patch. LOL.  Not making fun of it, just that we're all waiting for something "big" that never seems to transpire or something "big" that just gets swept under the carpet. One of these days! One of these days!  Not to be confused with wanting it to happen, more so knowing it will happen and just wanting it to hit before we drag this out the next 20 years and have half the country radiated like some other places in the world.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:09 | 2072284 web bot
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Big is coming... and it won't take 20 years.

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 21:30 | 2076590 DarthVaderMentor
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I guess the Linus in the Pumpkin patch was right on, rsnoble. The word was out all over the hacker world about this. Here's the press release.

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-charged-stealing-software-ny-001841876.html

 

 

Man charged with stealing software from NY Fed

 

 

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors charged a computer programmer with stealing software code valued at nearly $10 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

They charged Bo Zhang, who worked as a contract programmer at the bank, with illegally copying software to an external hard drive, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court on Wednesday.

Both the New York Fed and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington declined requests for comment.

Authorities said the software, owned by the U.S. Treasury Department, cost about $9.5 million to develop.

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:50 | 2071805 AgShaman
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Timmy:  "A-3"

Benny: ...."miss"

Benny:   "G-7"

Timmy:  "Hey, you sunk my Battleship!"

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:10 | 2071860 rsnoble
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Spynet overload? Or just the realization the China fever could wear off by this afternoon and thus get more bang for the buck. Or digital zero that is.  If the Feds actually printed this shit there would be no tree left on Earth.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:33 | 2071937 surfsup
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They are too paniced out that John Taylor Gatto is getting airtime on the net regarding the origins of the inner workings of the mind gods who would prefer slaves of us all regardless of status and colour.   That which impels us to war, impels us to debt, impels us not to objectively think, impels us to assume a diminuative intellectual stature when the truth is that regardless of the shell its all about the software within the form...    

www.theultimatehistorylesson.com

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGYyV7yMpY&list=PL463AA90FD04EC7A2&index=3&feature=plpp_video

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:46 | 2071981 Rastadamus
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BAKE SALE!!!!!!!!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:51 | 2072094 non_anon
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nothing to worry about, just a MLK holiday hangover, back to business soon

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:24 | 2072309 mr. mirbach
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Since when is the DEBT CEILING a technical difficulty?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:22 | 2072510 Money 4 Nothing
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Ever since nobody in their right mind will lend us money anymore? technically, that's a problem.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:31 | 2072339 Catflappo
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This is the first time I've ever heard the word 'technical' used as a synonym for 'brain'

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:04 | 2072457 andyupnorth
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I consider this a win for ZeroHedge!

Bravo!

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