D denner Oct 23, 2012 #21 Quote from piezoe: I support this "insanity" because it is working and it is better than the alternative. I am very concerned about present inflation and future inflation. But inflation isn't the only thing the Fed has to be concerned about. More... It was "working" in 2006-07 as well, as a response to the dot.com crash...until it wasn't working a few short months later. The problem with this ideology is that every unconventional approach is "justified" by the imagined worse case scenario.
Quote from piezoe: I support this "insanity" because it is working and it is better than the alternative. I am very concerned about present inflation and future inflation. But inflation isn't the only thing the Fed has to be concerned about. More... It was "working" in 2006-07 as well, as a response to the dot.com crash...until it wasn't working a few short months later. The problem with this ideology is that every unconventional approach is "justified" by the imagined worse case scenario.
P piezoe Oct 24, 2012 #22 I see 2003-2008 related to 2008-2012 as cause and effect rather than being equatable. Just a different viewpoint.
I see 2003-2008 related to 2008-2012 as cause and effect rather than being equatable. Just a different viewpoint.
