QE3 "unofficially" begins Monday AM.

[roamer65]

Trust me, the Federal Reserve will be in the markets Monday morning buying bonds, maybe even stocks.

The Federal Reserve will also defend the value of money market funds, as they did in 2008.

[rdking647]

1. i dont think they will have to

I honestly think this is a non event...

[roamer65]

2. They are preparing for it just in case.

They have already released statements, which means they are prepared or are preparing.

[sad sally]

3. The gloomy global crises according to Marc Faber

A mooted third round of quantitative easing (QE3) in the U.S. and more money printing elsewhere is merely deferring a crisis that will be bigger and could end in war, Faber said.

Occasionally the computer will crash and you have to reboot it. That will happen to the global economy. Before this happens there will be much more money printing because basically the central banks are willing to do that," he said. "By printing money, problems are not solved, but they can be postponed, and they become larger. It's like the recession in 2001. Had there not been massive money printing, it would have been steeper than what we had, but equally, we would have avoided probably the financial crash in 2008."

The next crisis will be far bigger, according to Faber.

"The next time we have a global economic crisis, it will be much worse than 2008. Before this happens there will be money printing and there will be war. The whole system will collapse," he said. "That's why I'm advising people that they have to think it through. In a total collapse you don't want to own government bonds and cash."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44031717?du

[roamer65]

4. I have said the same thing as Faber.

We should have allowed the economy to have a normal recession in 2001. It would have been similar to the 1990-1991 recession and we'd be out of it by now and probably be in better shape.

Easy Al Greenspan is at fault on that one.

[sad sally]

5. the coulda', shoulda', woulda', huh? I'm with you on Greenspan -

old age is catching up to him, as even he now laments, "In the business I was in, I was right 70% of the time, but I was wrong 30% of the time."

I'd flip those numbers, however; wrong 70% or more.