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To: dennisw
Ben Bernanke is doing the best he can to clean up. I would like to see Peter Schiff take Bernanke's job and do any better. I doubt he would

I would not be lowering rates. That doesn't help anyone in the short run and causes more problems in the long run. The confidence that will lower jumbo rates and other long term rates can only come from dampened inflation fears and a thorough housecleaning of bank balance sheets. Both of those are not helped by lowering short term rates. Also Bernanke said in his 2001 speech that if short term rates don't work he will monkey with longer term rates. That will just take us one step closer to hyperinflation.

13 posted on 04/07/2008 4:20:07 AM PDT by palmer
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To: palmer

As always, glad Ben is in charge and not you.


14 posted on 04/07/2008 4:22:22 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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