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Is the Fed Spread Back?

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I was intrigued by the prominent article on the permabull site Zerohedge announcing that on Monday (today) markets would explode higher thanks to the actions of the most evil person on the face of Earth, Janet Yellen. I decided to dig deeper into this, and I found this helpful thread. It’s a long, clumsy read to go through it (how’s that for a soft sell?) but you might want to click it and attempt to understand it. It’s a bit of a slog.

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