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Fed Minutes: Fed Cuts 2009 Economic Forecast, Sees No Sign of Housing Market Stabilizing
CNBC ^ | 2/18/2009 | Staff

Posted on 02/18/2009 11:12:02 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; porculus; porkuli; porkulus; realestate; socialism
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1 posted on 02/18/2009 11:12:02 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

While they may get that right this time, they are certainly late to the dance.

Keep in mind that as recently as August, the Fed was off fighting “inflation” because their outlook for U.S. economic growth was so strong.


2 posted on 02/18/2009 11:14:39 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Yeah, I remember that, they didn’t know there is no inflation when the customers stay home. Who would have thought that.

And now they are talking stimulus two ...


3 posted on 02/18/2009 11:16:22 AM PST by Tarpon (If you don't stand on principle, you stand for nothing at all.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Stop building for five years and you will see it stabilize. There are housing projects all over this country and no need for new homes.


4 posted on 02/18/2009 11:19:04 AM PST by RC2
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To: RC2

Agreed.

A consumer/service economy can only go on for so long.

You need to produce something of value.

Something we seem to have forgotten.


5 posted on 02/18/2009 11:20:44 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is all a game controlled by the Bildebergers. In June 5-6 2008 Bernake met with them in Chantilly, VA just as Obama and Hillary did ...when Obama pulled that stunt on his press letting them go to Chicago while he supposedly met Hillary at Feinstein’s house..BULL, it was the date of the Bildeberger Mtg 12 miles from the Airport where he ditched the press. This whole election was a HOAX, just as Bill Clinton met with them in 1991 and then became President, and claimed he accidently ended up at the “B” mtg. The banks went down intentionally as was proved by CEO Feld’s actions during the Lehman crisis refusing Warren Buffet billions for preferred stock, and a buyer the week before he let Lehman crash.
This whole thing was started intentionally and has been orchestrated from the beginning by the NWO Illuminati aka: Bildebergers.
I’ll wear the tin foil hat and be called a conspiracy theorists, but after listening to Coast to Coast, it appears there is proof now...


6 posted on 02/18/2009 11:23:22 AM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

And to think we just blew $800 billion yet did nothing to assuage the mortgage crisis.


7 posted on 02/18/2009 11:24:08 AM PST by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: RC2

That’s exactly right. They release the housing start data and seem shocked that it’s down. What do they expect in this environment?


8 posted on 02/18/2009 11:36:29 AM PST by jersey117
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To: All

Obviously Bush’s fault.


9 posted on 02/18/2009 11:38:23 AM PST by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Housing prices have fallen closer to where they should be. Unfortunately, millions of people still owe bubble prices. Housing prices will probably not recover up to the dizzing heights of the boom any time soon.


10 posted on 02/18/2009 11:38:24 AM PST by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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To: RC2

construction developments in AZ have come to a stand still


11 posted on 02/18/2009 11:47:06 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Obama destroying America...it sickens me people still think he is great and r so completely blind)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Call in the TURD BUSTERS...


12 posted on 02/18/2009 11:50:44 AM PST by mcmuffin
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To: Kackikat

What does a hamburger joint have to do with this?


13 posted on 02/18/2009 11:52:23 AM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: Kackikat
I’ll wear the tin foil hat and be called a conspiracy theorists, but after listening to Coast to Coast, it appears there is proof now...

You'd better double up on the foil.

CtC, LOL!

14 posted on 02/18/2009 11:59:13 AM PST by mcmuffin
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To: Kackikat
Looky who else was at this event. Geithner, Summers, Holbrook, Daschle, Paulson, even ol’ Condi Rice.

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/2008BilderbergAttendees.html

You would be correct in your assumption.

15 posted on 02/18/2009 12:05:32 PM PST by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: Red in Blue PA
I'm not a broker, not an Ivy League Economist with a PHD, but, I saw this crap coming 2Q 2006...then confirmed it 1Q 2007.

Growing goobermint at all costs was leading the way and RINO's in Congress having done nothing in 6 years to thwart the situation we are now seeing form and come to pass. The snowball is picking up speed and size; the curve is going exponential very soon.

16 posted on 02/18/2009 12:07:21 PM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: rabscuttle385

for your pinglist

How long do you think it will take for a certain someone to come along on this thread to claim that the Fed has been right about this every step of the way, that we should stop fighting the Fed cause we’re a bunch of ignorant ideologues, that we will lose our shirts on gold and miss the Q1 stock market recovery, and that the economy will come back this summer like it always does.

I guess we can count Bernanke among the ranks of ideological doom-and-gloomers.


17 posted on 02/18/2009 12:19:51 PM PST by sanchmo
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To: Southack

They might as well raise rates now and get the real recovery started.


18 posted on 02/18/2009 12:25:26 PM PST by fightinbluhen51 ("MOLON LABE")
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To: Hoodat

If the crisis is in Financials and Housing why does the stimulus bill barely address those areas?


19 posted on 02/18/2009 12:28:29 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: mcmuffin

If the media hounded that guy like they do sexed up Republicans he’d have been thrown out by the voters a decade ago. Decadence slips through to legislation.


20 posted on 02/18/2009 12:29:46 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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