LOL, just thought i would browse the Fed's balance sheet to see whats going on and the most funniest thing is their asset list , they have about 11 billion dollars worth of gold and 1 trillion dollars worth of mortgage back securities, ie the bail outs of bad bank assets from the 08-09 disaster ... Take a look at it here ... its fun, like looking at a really really bad investment portfilio :lol: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/BSTcombinedfinstmt2010.pdf