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To: flamberge
Higher interest rates will immediately reduce commercial credit expansion

Deflationary.

and may reduce economic activity very quickly.

Deflationary.

This will hurt a lot of people very quickly too.

Deflationary.

159 posted on 12/18/2016 12:13:41 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Deflationary.

The States and Municipalities are toast. But Federal checks will always clear - well, at least for a while.

They will simply print more money with yet another Treasury bond issue. The central bankers will take the first cut for themselves(the "prime rate"), then pass the depreciating currency out to the rest of the system.

Inflationary

169 posted on 12/18/2016 8:28:46 PM PST by flamberge (What next?)
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