To: Tauzero
But the FED doesn't make lending and/or credit extension decisions.
To: anniegetyourgun
Exactly right.
The Fed can only make it easier for people to do what they want to do anyway. Which is why the fed really doesn't like deflation. Deflation sets a floor on real interest rates that the fed can't do anything about, although various unpromising schemes have been devised to try to get around that.
8 posted on
11/26/2003 11:48:24 AM PST by
Tauzero
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To: anniegetyourgun
But the FED doesn't make lending and/or credit extension decisions.Yes. That's why the FED of the 1930's couldn't stop a deflationary debt collapse, and why today's FED would be just as helpless.
11 posted on
11/26/2003 12:15:02 PM PST by
sourcery
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