Quote from Landis82:
Really now?
It was THAT easy, eh?
Get real.
You run around here acting as if your Perma-Dove Call was right all along.
When in fact, that low-rate policy created this whole fuck up, to begin with.
They should have raised and crashed back in 05. There was no choice. This outcome is certainly better, eh?
DOW at what? 9K and falling?
The longer rates are held at retarded levels, the higher the leverage, the more the excesses and the deeper the losses/bankruptcies when the music stops.
If Bernacke had raised when he should have, a lot of the severity - we have yet to see - could and would have been avoided.
Would it have been a cake walk? Of course not.
No recession is. But raising would have produced far more desirable results than we're about to witness.
Just getting started, as they say.