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To: MichaelCorleone
Exactly. The fact that the market can’t stay up unless the FED offers cheap money-and the only reason it’s up in the first place is most of the Forbes 500 spent almost all of their tax refunds on stock buybacks is alarming and tells you everything you need to know about this economy and the market: it’s not all it appears to be.

And I think what infuriates me more than anything is the FACT that FReepers would be losing their mind if Obama was acting this way with the budget and the Dems had the Senate. And if Hillary had won and promised to close the deficit and pay off the debt in 8 years-and we were running $1.2 trillion in deficits after two-we’d never here the end of it. But because it’s Trump-well-OK!

We’re gonna lower rates to 1.0-1.5 points by October. That’s leaves us very little room when the recession does hit-and it will hit-whether it’s in 2020 or sometime in Trump’s second term (hopefully). I don’t think people understand the implications of having nowhere to go at the beginning of a recession when your rates are already near zero. I just hope they realize they were the ones cheerleading these low rates when the pain hits.

11 posted on 08/14/2019 2:37:24 PM PDT by NELSON111 (Congress: The Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog show. Theater for sheep. My politics determines my "hero")
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To: NELSON111

” I don’t think people understand the implications of having nowhere to go at the beginning of a recession when your rates are already near zero. “

They will get to share Limbaugh’s surprise upon learning that negative interest rates exist.


21 posted on 08/14/2019 6:22:17 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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