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dkf

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2. What is confusing to me are those who say US banks have a known and survivable amount of exposure

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 12:40 PM

Dec 2011

to European debt, yet how can they possibly know what the shadow banking exposure is? Maybe the Feds know the numbers but I don't put it past them to hide it from us so we don't know how vulnerable the system possibly is.

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Shades of MF Global. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 #1

What is confusing to me are those who say US banks have a known and survivable amount of exposure dkf Dec 2011 #2

Guess it depends on who is saying that and how you define "known" dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 #3

Who? People who have an interest in keeping us invested. (cynical me) dkf Dec 2011 #4

Ah, this must be what your last sentence refers to... dkf Dec 2011 #5

Yep, that last paragraph... dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 #6