US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade

Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by cheez on Monday April 11, 2011 @01:11PM (#2433306)

Partially. Only banks have access to the excess and they aren't loaning any more than usual.

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Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by Yrlec on Monday April 11, 2011 @01:55PM (#2433488)

When the FED is buying US bonds through QE2 they push the other bond-buyers into buying other things, instead of the bonds the would have bought, had the FED not distorted the market. This pushes prices up for other asset classes. There's excess liquidity desperately looking for ROI. The money has to go somewhere.

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Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by cheez on Monday April 11, 2011 @04:54PM (#2434319)

So here's to hoping there is no QE3, ya?

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Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by HelloBeautiful on Monday April 11, 2011 @01:38PM (#2433410)

What you're saying doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

FED and the other private banks are not stockpiling US dollars in their own accounts.

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Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by cheez on Monday April 11, 2011 @04:45PM (#2434278)

FED is a private bank?

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Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by HelloBeautiful on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:27PM (#2434714)

Yes, just as Federal Express it's privately owned. US government has 20% of the shares. Until a 1976 change in Federal Reserve Act the list of owners was public: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol...

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Re:US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade by cheez on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:55PM (#2434822)

Incestuous. This can't be real.

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