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Dollar hits low as Fed chief hints at rate cut
Financial Times ^ | February 28, 2008 | Krishna Guha

Posted on 02/27/2008 6:05:37 PM PST by SkyPilot

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To: Perdogg

Yours are?


61 posted on 02/28/2008 7:20:00 PM PST by nomorelurker (keep flogging them till morale improves)
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To: SkyPilot
...the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates again next month.

Can the fed chief be impeached? This guy's insane. The dollar is already so low that people are stealing copper out of air conditioners for the monetary value. Lowering rates will only serve to beat the dollar down further.

This will cure nothing!

63 posted on 02/28/2008 7:41:23 PM PST by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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To: Perdogg
He’s only cleaning up Greenspan’s mess.

Greenspan's mistake was keeping rates too low for too long after 9/11. The solution to that is NOT to lower rates to unprecidented lows again - the solution is to ride out the problem and let the chips fall quickly.

64 posted on 02/28/2008 7:43:45 PM PST by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
What else would cause inflation but a devalued dollar? The modern usage is higher prices. Blame the media.

We can blame the media for a multitude of minsunderstood terms, but in this instance why not spread the blame to the schools, the Wall Street financial gurus and the politicians, left and right?

Seldom do you find any of the above opinion-molders doing more than repeating the modern usage you so eloquently stated and which is then echoed throughout the country.

Both a devalued dollar and higher prices in general are properly viewed as results of inflation, not causes.

Until such time as Americans begin to understand that inflation is a monetary phenomonon with political overtones and not the product of greedy bankers, oil shieks and payday loan sharks, we will continue getting hit with it every so often.

65 posted on 02/28/2008 8:32:20 PM PST by logician2u
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We can blame the media for a multitude of minsunderstood terms, but in this instance why not spread the blame to the schools, the Wall Street financial gurus and the politicians, left and right?

What good would it do?

Both a devalued dollar and higher prices in general are properly viewed as results of inflation, not causes.

Absolutely.

inflation is a monetary phenomonon

Correct!

It was funny to hear the claim that a gold standard would mean stable prices.

66 posted on 02/28/2008 8:44:58 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
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