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To: Mariner
I believe that if the Fed lowers rates to be in more of a logical relationship to other rates in the yield curve, that would be neutral or in fact be disinflationary. The problem is when the Fed waits too long to lower rate (as it always does), then it has to lower rates too much, which is inflationary.

The Fed creates inflation at both extremes of the credit cycle. It creates too much money when rates are too low, and it does economic damage when rates are too high. Both results are inflationary.

13 posted on 08/24/2007 4:22:11 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62
It creates too much money when rates are too low, and it does economic damage when rates are too high. Both results are inflationary.

Don't tell the goldbugs or other financial illiterates.

20 posted on 08/24/2007 4:46:05 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Ignorance of the laws of economics is no excuse.)
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