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[Aaron Copland]

Quote from jonbig04:

A lot of people have benefited. Dont be dumb. The FED has to fight one battle at a time.

A few have benefited no doubt, but the majority has suffered due to rising food and energy.

I guess if you have been short the banks you no doubt have benefited. The Fed and government always do stupid things during election years. What the fed and the SEC have done this year will only lead to more pain down the road.

The need to let the markets work and quit micro managing the economy.

 

[jonbig04]

Quote from Aaron Copland:

A few have benefited no doubt, but the majority has suffered due to rising food and energy.

I guess if you have been short the banks you no doubt have benefited. The Fed and government always do stupid things during election years. What the fed and the SEC have done this year will only lead to more pain down the road.

The need to let the markets work and quit micro managing the economy.

Inflation hurts everybody yes, i'm not saying its a good thing...just that the FED has to pick its battles. im confident that if the fed had chose to fight inflation by not raising rates, the stock market would be worse off even than is now, and everybody would be up in arms about how the fed didnt drop rates when they should have...its like everyone on ET is an armchair fed chairman lol. Look how much the S&P has tanked, and think what would have happened had the fad not acted.

 

[Covert]

Quote from PAPA ROACH:

Commodity complex is getting tagged today across the board. It is my conspiracy that Goldman has been tipped off on tomorrows suprise rate increase ot the FOMC meeting, and are liquidating volume today.

My take is that the street will ultimately view an increase with a bullish equity market response, and a large short covering rally in the dollar.

Adjust your portfolio accordingly.

This is PRICELESS. I'm picturing you sitting at your computer in full tinfoil hat and suit, waiting for the aliens to touch down so that they can communicate their plan to the world to you and only you.

Seriously, find some sci-fi forum for nonsense like this.

 

[Voodoo-king]

Quote from Aaron Copland:

You forgot to mention over leveraging and greed. Why should the tax payers pay for this?

This was all planned out.

A reason is needed. The baby boomers will soon retire, who is going to pay?

“Forcing” people to work more for less by any mean possible was the plan from the beginning.

If the housing market had not been blown up to ridiculous levels it would have not “forced” people to undertake enough debt obligations to be trapped hard enough.

The design is beautiful.

Public debt is the spice, it justifies higher taxes..

 

[jonbig04]

Quote from Voodoo-king:

This was all planned out.

lol. wow.

 

[Voodoo-king]

Quote from jonbig04:

lol. wow.

The funny thing is, I did not read the above post when I wrote what I wrote.

 

[athlonmank8]

Quote from Daal:

If the fed does ANYTHING at all till the end of the year it will be a ease not a hike. the hawks forecasters were wrong all the way from 5.25 to 2% and they will continue to be wrong

You must be on some pretty good stuff

 

[Daal]

Quote from athlonmank8:

You must be on some pretty good stuff

look, I feel in this trap of trying to make sense by looking at some data and paying attention to what the fed was saying.

I thought they were going to ease .25 when it was at 5.25, then maybe once more and that was it. they did 50 right away and started one of the most agressive easings ever, most people were blown away and had no idea what was going on.
Not pimco, gross and co, he was calling for a 2 handle fed funds when it was at 4 and something. They were dead on, now gross is saying they will stand pat, you think I will disagree with the man who called the whole move?
The fed never hikes with increasing unemployment, I think there is like one exception in the last decades

 

[Landis82]

Quote from Aaron Copland:

You forgot to mention over leveraging and greed. Why should the tax payers pay for this?

Because the alternative, a full blown DEPRESSION is not a very realistic alternative.

Most of you "let the banks fail" proponents here on ET fail to realize the magnitude of the issues in our financial system. It's almost a waste of time to even try and explain it to you guys . . . And to this very day, none of you guys have been able to tell me where the CAPITAL FORMATION would come from if you let the entire banking sector go down the tubes . . .

It certainly won't come from the American consumer, given their historically low savings rates.
(FYI: the savings rate for all of 2005 was actually NEGATIVE, and this was during a year where inflation was only 3.4% ).

So again, I ask you where the CAPITAL FORMATION is going to come from for capital investment, new business, trade, job growth, economic growth, etc.?

Anyone care to answer this question?

 

[scriabinop23]

Quote from PAPA ROACH:

That's the problem with guys like you, you think that everything falls under the same set of circumstances, and that it is all textbook. Lets just prescribe a strong antibiotic, that should clear things up! Unless of course it is a nasty virus, which this is.

And yes, I am well aware of banks being helped out as you say, (bailed out in my view). In case you were not aware of it, what is happening is the result of your so called "capital formation".

Go take Economics 201, you never advanced beyond first aid.

Hmmm... You guys are all missing the point. Econ 340 teaches a more valuable lesson ... that Econ 201 and 101A are insufficient to formulate proper hypotheses.