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Re: If a Democrat were up for re-election (none / 1)

Doubtful. Helicopter Ben's suffers from a pretty severe case of deflationphobia. He's clearly pretty spooked.I'll bet we're back to a 1% federal funds rate before the year's out.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 01:43:31 PM EST
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Re: If a Democrat were up for re-election (none / 1)

I don't think Helicopter Ben is going to make it to the end of his term. Just a guess.

Recall US interest rates in 2000 when Gore was more or less in a Democratic re-election dynamic and the first of Greenspan's bubbles was deflating. Unlike now, they were ratcheting up interest rates.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 01:57:28 PM EST
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