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Re: The Fed is hiking rates excessively into an economy where consumer spending growth was only 1.1% in Q1. This probably won’t end well. 

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Re: “If it drives inflation into a very slight negative
number I think that would be a good thing. ”

Agreed. Deflation spooks the Fed, however. They have no tools with which to control it. (You've seen how long Japan has been combating deflation. About twenty years.)




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Re: The Fed is hiking rates excessively into an economy where consumer spending growth was only 1.1% in Q1. This probably won�t end well.
By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5
Mon, 07 May 18 5:13 PM 		Msg. 00731 of 62138

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The Fed is hiking rates excessively into an economy where consumer spending growth was only 1.1% in Q1.
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I dunno.
If it drives inflation into a very slight negative
number I think that would be a good thing.
Zim.

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