When will Ben rescue us?

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The Fed officials all say one thing and do another. They change their minds based on single data points and have a tendency to hit the panic button (anyone remember Easy Al?). Bernanke has hit the panic button before, don't think he won't wear it out by the time he gets kicked out of his chairman seat.
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Don't you think with oil above 100 and food prices surging the panic button might be raising rates not lowering them?
 
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Don't you think with oil above 100 and food prices surging the panic button might be raising rates not lowering them?
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The Fed HATES raising rates. I repeat, they HATE raising rates. If we had the past 2 Fed chairmen during the 1970s and 1980s, inflation would be at 30% right now.
 
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The markets are rigged, The Fed is on the bull's side. Remember August when Ben came in on expiration Friday and blew out the bears with the 50 bp discount rate cut?
How about TAF on the day after the Fed meeting in December in the morning scalping the bear's hide?

That's 2 times in the last 4 months. I would not want to challenge Bazooka Ben here, he's not afraid of shooting dollars in the bear's faces to get them to capitulate.
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For being "on the bulls side" his rate cuts, even the suprise one, have not had any real impact on the market, we are lower now than when they started to lower rates. The rate cuts are part of the problem, not the solution at this point. Never the less, they probably will continue to cut rates, down to 2.5 or 3%, and it wont matter.

Brandon
 
Quote from detective:

The Fed HATES raising rates. I repeat, they HATE raising rates. If we had the past 2 Fed chairmen during the 1970s and 1980s, inflation would be at 30% right now.
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that's right. they hate to raise rates so they will raise them only when they panic.

So obviously panic button is rasing rates
 
The Fed could give a rats a$$ about inflation. Its all lip service. If they actually cared about inflation and a falling dollar, you think we would be 1.47 with the euro and have commodities rocketing every day?

Get a clue. The Fed since the 1970s have been inflationists.
 
Eventually rate cuts will make the stock market go down...and the Bernanke put will expire deep in the money...

Rate cuts are not good things...especially intermeeting cuts...
 
Sure they matter. a fed fund rates at 2.5% would stimulate all areas of the economy, that too is a function of time. It doesn't happen overnight. Rate cuts take 6 months to start to kick in. Let's see, they started in Aug.. There has never been a period in history where an easing fed has not led to clear expansion some 12-18 months later.

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For being "on the bulls side" his rate cuts, even the suprise one, have not had any real impact on the market, we are lower now than when they started to lower rates. The rate cuts are part of the problem, not the solution at this point. Never the less, they probably will continue to cut rates, down to 2.5 or 3%, and it wont matter.

Brandon
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Quote from detective:

The Fed are chartists, they look at the charts on the S&P 500 and Dow and know where support is and will likely come to the rescue at S&P 500 1380, Dow 12500.
Those are the Maginot lines where no bear gets through alive.

Only 2% risk here fellows, unlimited upside, we have the Bernanke Put at 1380!
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Exactly how long is your account overnight? You sound tremendously desperate.
 
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