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During his January 2014 State of the Union address Obama announced the creation of a new financial product that would allow American workers, those without access to retirement accounts anyway, to directly participate in the U.S. Treasury's debt ponzi on a tax-deferred basis.  The accounts were cleverly named MyRA and were intended to be a substitute for people who didn't have access to an employee-sponsored 401k...with one little catch...money deposited in the accounts could only be invested in U.S. government bonds.  Here's an excerpt from Obama's speech at the time:

We can now officially close the book on the "cash on the sidelines."

One week ago, we reported that in the latest weekly survey of Bank of America high net worth clients, the cash allocation had fallen to an all time low of just 10.4%, below the previous record low of 11% in April 2007 as everyone is "forced" to dance in this market, in which the music is still playing.

Now, in a separate confirmation of what Deutsche Bank recently classified as market "froth", Jonathan Tepper points out that the stock euphoria has finally spread to the retail investor.

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

One of the greatest investors in the world is getting worried…

Howard Marks is the billionaire founder of Oaktree Capital, one of the largest and most successful investment firms in the world.

A few times each year Marks write up his thoughts about financial markets– he calls them ‘investment memos’.

And he just released his latest one with a very clear message: it’s time to be cautious.

From Marks’ memo…

Just seemed appropriate...

July was a month of extremes across asset classes...

In the first warning sign that the US Treasury is burning through more cash than previously expected, at 3pm today the Treasury Department announced that in its latest forecast of end-of-September cash balance it anticipated only $60 billion of cash on hand, nearly half the $115 billion it forecast in its previous report in May, according to the Department’s marketable borrowing estimates.  The treasury also expects to borrow $96 billion in net marketable debt in the current quarter, down from $98 billion forecast previously.