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To: expat_panama

They’re not going to raise rates ever.

They can’t afford to sell any of their bond assets, because those assets are junk.

When the Bond market finally implodes, rates will spike up then. But it won’t be the Fed doing it.


10 posted on 08/22/2016 4:54:57 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: agere_contra

I agree. Rates should have been raised a decade or more ago. Instead we have so much distortion (speculation instead of investment) the economy cannot recover and rates cannot be raised without some major pain. If we had leaders we would raise then, but we do not.


12 posted on 08/22/2016 6:07:20 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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