ectopic 发表于 2010-10-17 13:35 
feng-pan 發表於 2010-10-17 09:38 
But i don't think QE will do as much as it was supposed to do.
Time will tell, but if it doesn't work you can bet Fed will do something else to prop up prices. Bernanke is very, very phobic of deflation. So if S&P500 ever approaches 800 again, I'll be going 100% long without waiting for double bottom confirmation.
In terms of real economic fundamentals, I think 99.9% of all government inteventions don't do as they are supposed to. It's sad that we learn and talk about the efficiency of free markets in economics 101, but in practice we do not allow markets to be free. We come with all sorts of excuses for governments to interfere with prices and make markets inefficient. For traders it's actually good, you just learn to play along with the government and profit from the inefficiencies. But for people who do not understand the nature of the game, they lose without even knowing.
In an economic system with fiat money, government is part of the market, so what does it mean by "government interventions"? When inflation pressure drives up prices, is central bank increasing the interest rate an intervention?
Many people now blamed Greenspan for the financial crisis, but had he chosen to pop the bubble even before it had chance to inflate, he might have been blamed for causing economic recession.
In some sense the financial sector has become a cancer of the economy, very aggressive and energetic. Real estates, garlic, mung bean, sugar, vegetable oil.... One day when toilet paper becomes a kind of store of value, you should know that the cancer has reached its final stage...