Personally, if what you guys are saying is about accurate, it sure sounds suspicious
but years ago I thought this whole thing ( largely real estate) was a joke due to
issues like this one with informational issuew and I really have to restrain
myself from making satirical comments
to audiences expecting reasonable professionalism even from outsiders. You
can't keep secretes forever and right now there is so much confusion they won't
be able to track down everyone.

It may be worth noting that this idea has been around for at least a few months.
I was making some rambling conjectures about this topic a few days prior
to the move. In some part, my conjecture
was based on comments I heard or read about rumours having to do with the Fed
buying longer maturity issues and some simple plots I did with xgraph on cygwin and
some text/csv data files I downloaded from the Fed. I couldn't actually site credible sources now,
again IIRC CNBC and maybe Yahoo or possibly Bloomberg, but
based on this information I probably would have bet the other way by concluding that things are getting
pretty bad.

A surge an hour before is probably a blatant specific leak but the notion seems to have been diffusing and circulating for a while.