Reply #8: At least some of that hysteria is about holding treasury bonds AND being over a barrel in some of

[patrice]

these international hedge-funds, with American equity on the auction block.

Yes, this stuff is PRIVATE business CONTRACTS which makes it impossible to find out with any degree of certainty (even if they actually choose to tell you) how big the problem REALLY is, so maybe this is authentic hysteria and maybe it's more like a bunch of drama queens milking the situation for what THEY can get out of it America-Be-Damned, but in either case, when you're one of the main ones who has to decide what to do with all of these financial murder-suicides you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't, so you go for the percentages that have the highest probability of hurting the fewest people - especially the people who didn't have anything much to do with the whole fucking situation in the first place.