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Now the word is that zero-percent interest rates are just too darn high. That's why we haven't seen a reinflation of bubble America. The Financial Times reports the existence of a Federal Reserve staff memorandum that makes the case for a negative-five-percent federal-funds rate.

1 posted on 07/23/2009 10:16:52 AM PDT by anonsquared
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To: anonsquared

The government and Fed are vigorously trying to reinflate those bubbles


2 posted on 07/23/2009 10:19:43 AM PDT by GeronL (UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
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To: anonsquared

Oh yes you can!!!

The brilliant president, his brilliant advisors, his brilliant congress, and his brilliant constituents have proven it!!! Figures dont’t lie! Just look at the statistics!!

/S/

IMHO


3 posted on 07/23/2009 10:20:46 AM PDT by ripley
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To: anonsquared

Nonsense, the financial sector-banks, Wall Street-actually believed that they could engender prosperity by moving their pieces of paper from place to place-they can’t. You have to make something in order to be prosperous. We gave our prosperity away to China and India...in China sales of GM cars are up 62%. Why? They make products that people buy. The American people were sold a bill of goods by Wall Street-with the consumer, service or consumption economy-whatever you call it...it’s an abysmal failure. Until we find some way to bring back manufacturing, nothing will get better.


4 posted on 07/23/2009 10:22:50 AM PDT by nyconse (When you buy something, make an investment in your country. Buy American or bye bye America)
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To: anonsquared
"Now the word is that zero-percent interest rates are just too darn high. That's why we haven't seen a reinflation of bubble America. The Financial Times reports the existence of a Federal Reserve staff memorandum that makes the case for a negative-five-percent federal-funds rate.

Hard to wrap a partially functioning brain around that.
5 posted on 07/23/2009 10:23:31 AM PDT by allmost
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Will we be able to refinance our mortgages where the banks pay us 5% a year for 30 years?


9 posted on 07/23/2009 10:31:57 AM PDT by anonsquared (Jim Thompson made me do it!)
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Fed will soon announce they will pay your airfare to bring your own sack and pick it up.


11 posted on 07/23/2009 10:42:08 AM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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