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Fed Cuts Rates to Historic Low [fed funds from 1.0% to 0.25%]
Wall Street Journal ^
Posted on 12/16/2008 11:35:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
If the W administration had a spine and a clue they would have stuck to the original plan of cleaning the junk out of the system.
For those complaining about the rate cut, you should have complained when the yield curve was inverted, then all of this would have been unnecessary.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:50:22 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: mysterio
Dump the wallet stock! I’m buying wheelbarrow stock!!
To: blam
Ouch! That is not going to help things. With the world oil market in collapse, you may just be right about another Russian currency crisis.
Things are spiralling down the drain very fast now. It has only been a matter of months since Lehman went belly up. I can’t believe how fast all this is happening.
To: Sub-Driver
Time to fuel the next bubble with too-cheap credit.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:52:06 AM PST
by
Jibaholic
("Those people who are not ruled by God will be ruled by tyrants." --William Penn)
To: Puppage
I just got offered 5.25%, told him I’ll wait a while.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:52:43 AM PST
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid! My new enviromentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Things are spiralling down the drain very fast nowWe say that every time the interest rate is cut,but the dollar seems to rebound when we find out how bad everyone else is.In 3 months,the UK will slash rates and the dollar will return.It's been an ongoing cycle through all of this.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:53:41 AM PST
by
quack
("Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.")
To: vietvet67
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:54:15 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(NOMR! - Not One More RINO!)
To: Sub-Driver
>”U.S. Federal Reserve officials...”
what BS!
the “federal reserve” isn’t Federal, these aren’t U.S. government officials running it, and there are no “reserves”. The “fed” central bank, is a private organization composed of private international bankers, who are no more connected to the US government then Federal Express is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2DgN1VYgQ&feature=channel_page
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:57:30 AM PST
by
FBD
(My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
To: Puppage
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:58:58 AM PST
by
Post Toasties
(It's not a smear if it's true.)
To: quack
Mortgage rates will rise because this will lower the yield on 10 yr treasuries,again.Dollar goes down,mortgage rates go up Maybe long run - but now TLT (a proxy for the 20-yr bond) is up near its highs for the day (or ever).
I think that the plan to "fix" the economy is to lower LT rates to 4.5% for us mere subjects, so that we can buy new houses or re-fi existing ones for a bargain, so as to juice things up. That'll do the trick...and then the velocity of money will ratchet up without money being withdrawn fast enough from the economy, goosing inflation. Then the dollar tanks and rates go up - then the Treasury cannot pay the interest on the debt and THEN we have a serious problem.
All they're doing is postponing the day of reckoning, and making it worse. Greenspan refused to allow the economy to bite the bullet after the Tech Crash and 9/11, and now we're screwed. The mathematics say that we cannot possibly pay back all of the debt. Better to allow defaults now, get the pain over with and rebuild, than to prolong the agony. Its like someone with gangrene who's been given a painkiller, and who then postpones cutting off his leg because "it isn't so bad." Then it invades the rest of the body and he's pushing up daisies.
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posted on
12/16/2008 11:59:58 AM PST
by
Ancesthntr
(An ex-citizen of the Frederation dedicated to stopping the Obamination from becoming President)
To: illiac
I’m seeing 5.75 to 6 right now near Chicago for 30 year fixed. Where do I go for these 4% rates?
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:00:24 PM PST
by
Post Toasties
(It's not a smear if it's true.)
To: Diogenesis
I want you to picture Barney riding “bareback”— that should end any posts with Barney’s pic in it.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:00:31 PM PST
by
midnightson
(Mama-the ultimate prognosticator- said there'd be days like this.)
To: Post Toasties
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:00:41 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Sub-Driver
SPECTACULAR! This cements my plans. I just retired. Thank you, Ben!
Life is good.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:03:49 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
To: mysterio
The dollar is...
You need C notes...
You know, the twin-ply stuff...
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:04:58 PM PST
by
djf
(...heard about a couple livin in the USA, he said they traded in their baby for a Chevrolet...)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:09:10 PM PST
by
jsh3180
To: SaxxonWoods
Let me translate: The economy is in full scale collapse, go ahead and rejoice over the rate, you won’t be soon ....
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:09:14 PM PST
by
Scythian
To: Sub-Driver
If you can’t figure out how to make money now, you’ll never know how. What a relief.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:10:18 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
To: Ancesthntr
Many years ago I heard a banker from the Fed being interviewed about his plan for expiring currency to keep people from just holding onto money. This was before the internet was popular, so I called up his office to complain. His secretary took a message and he sent me a nice letter with his full paper describing how the Fed might handle a period of negative interest rates. I guess he took a lot of heat about his idea and he was sending out the letters to calm people down. His cover letter stated that it was a possible contigency plan for something unthinkable like massive deflation during a recession causing people to just sit on their cash (not even in banks), but he never expected it to really happen because rates that low were generally inflationary. (I think I have that right from a more than ten year old memory.)
I wonder if now is the unthinkable situation he was considering. If even 0.25% rates can't get inflation moving like they desparately want, will they start doing crazy things soon?
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:10:53 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
To: Scythian
“Let me translate: The economy is in full scale collapse, go ahead and rejoice over the rate, you wont be soon ....”
The economy does what it does. Prior guesses just paid off big. Worrying about the economy is not my job, nor is it yours. Our job is always the same, to discover how to make money no matter what the economy is doing.
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posted on
12/16/2008 12:14:38 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
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