Quote from S2007S:
IF the federal reserve didn't pump BILLIONS of dollars into this market in AUGUST 2007 and provide liquidity or cut rates like they have been the DOW would be sitting under 11k at this moment. The federal reserve should not have done anything Tuesday morning, doing that only created more problems. The best thing was to wait, if the dow starts to sell off again what will they do, cut more, you can only drive rates down so low before inflation risk starts to rise which it already has. The difference between rates now and where they were in 1987 is that the federal reserve doesn't have much room to drop rates like they did in 1987, where do they go after they drop rates down to historical lows and create more credit and liquidity problems. Cutting rates to historical lows in 2000-2001 is what created the problems this market is seeing today, cutting rates down again will only cause more problems going foward.