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To: TigerLikesRooster

Fed acts Sunday to prevent global bank run Monday

By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

Acting quickly to prevent a run on major global financial firms, the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.25% and offered to lend money to a longer list of firms than ever before.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/...5F05D859B76%7D&siteid=rss


6 posted on 03/16/2008 7:39:33 PM PDT by forester (An economy that is overburdened by government eventually results in collapse)
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To: forester
By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch Acting quickly to prevent a run on major global financial firms, the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.25% and offered to lend money to a longer list of firms than ever before.

You have got to be freaking kidding me! Bernanke, the poor guy. He must be sweating bullets. I feel bad for him.

This is beyond extraordinary.

10 posted on 03/16/2008 7:42:07 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (A moderate Muslim is one who acts like a Christian.)
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To: forester

Bad link here is the right one

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B43265631%2D1656%2D4697%2D8377%2D55F05D859B76%7D&siteid=rss


11 posted on 03/16/2008 7:42:20 PM PDT by forester (An economy that is overburdened by government eventually results in collapse)
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what would we care about a ‘global’ bank run. Isn’t our government supposed to be looking after the American people’s interests, not the globes?


114 posted on 03/16/2008 9:00:12 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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