Of all the far-fetched ideas on this thread, this is the most far-fetched....the Fed actually learning from history?
Not only recent history, but the whole history of bubbles and manias should lead any rational investor to see the Fed's fallacies. How do you fix the dot-com bubble/blowout? By golly, we'll drastically cut rates and replacing it with a real-esate bubble.
It will happen again. Not for a few years, but it will. Within less than a decade of "fixing" the S&L mess, another credit/real-estate bubble started.
Not only recent history, but the whole history of bubbles and manias should lead any rational investor to see the Fed's fallacies. How do you fix the dot-com bubble/blowout? By golly, we'll drastically cut rates and replacing it with a real-esate bubble.
It will happen again. Not for a few years, but it will. Within less than a decade of "fixing" the S&L mess, another credit/real-estate bubble started.
Quote from sg20:
Put a sticky note on the fed's forehead, "Thy shall not rely on real estates to bail out the bad economy". Since 1987, there were 2 crashes relating to the financial systems and the real estate market, the recent one due to low interest rates creating a housing feeding frenzy; I hope they learned their lessons to keep housing prices stable rather than creating chaos and bubbles, the consequences were the total collapse of the financial systems.