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Re:Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to ... by SilasX on Monday March 23, 2020 @01:39PM (#22666503)
Well, yes, if you define "appropriately pessimistic bond markets" as "non-functioning", sure.

These aren't sound businesses, because the current virus is going to screw them.

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Re:Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to ... by perl4ever on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:50PM (#22671001)
This is circular reasoning, but it's also counter to the facts, which are that markets aren't yet pricing securities for an apocalypse.
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Re:Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to ... by SilasX on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:16AM (#22671857)
No, you're the one assuming they're functioning companies to prove that the deserve to be saved. That's itself circular.

And if you think the market is correctly pricing the equity, you can't turn around and say it's mispricing the bonds so the Fed has to "correct it".

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Re:Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to ... by perl4ever on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:37PM (#22678740)
I didn't say the market is correctly pricing anything. I'm saying if it is correctly pricing securities, then it can't be used as evidence they are nonviable.

I mean, circular reasoning is one level of stupidity, but getting it going with a counterfactual is just enraging to me.

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