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Thursday, 4 Nov 2010 | 12:17 PM ET Text Size By: John MelloyExecutive Producer, Fast Money
To find a buyer of all the government debt he's printing, Treasury Secretary Tim Geinthner doesn't need to travel to China, just walk a mile over to the Federal Reserve building.
With the Federal Reserve set to print $600 billion in order to buy Treasury securities, it is essentially funding the $1.2 trillion deficit for the next six months, according to Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research. It's even more if you count the reinvestment of proceeds from its mortgage-backed securities portfolio.
"You essentially have the world's largest hedge fund down the street from the world's largest prime brokerage,"? said Yardeni, who has held positions at both the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. "I think that QE-2.0 is a very bad idea because it increases the odds of a trifecta of bubbles in stocks, bonds, and commodities."?
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