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money-market fund managers Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

zero hedge Sun 2010-01-03 23:46 EST

This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied

...A key proposal in the overhaul of money market regulation suggests that money market fund managers will have the option to "suspend redemptions to allow for the orderly liquidation of fund assets."...In essence, the entire US capital market is now a hedge fund, where even presumably the safest investment tranche can be locked out from within your control when the ubiquitous "extraordinary circumstances" arise.

denied; government; legal right; Money-market accounts; redeemed; Zero Hedge.