There was quite a bit of central bank concern over the results of the 'stress tests' for the European banks.
I will not address the tests themselves here, but let it suffice to say that they only involved the banks' trading portfolios, and not their loan portfolios, which could give you some idea of their lack of rigor. And 7 of 91 banks failed.
But the spokesmodels on Bloomberg were remarking, frequently, that the markets are pleased by the tests and the crisis is over because 'stocks are higher,' and 'gold was lower.'
The lies and market manipulation will continue until confidence is restored.
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"O that I could find in the desert a wayside shelter for travelers, that I might depart from my people. For they are all adulterers, an unfaithful mob of traitors. Their tongues are devious weapons, bent like drawn bows. With falsehoods rather than truth they have gained power. They commit one crime after another. They do not know me, says the Lord. I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, the lair of jackals. I will lay waste to Judah, a desolation where no one can live."
Jeremiah 9:2-3,11