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00736 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.
   Are we back on the Gold Standard yet??? THAT would be a good first... 		micro   POPE 5   07 May 2018
 10:36 PM
00735 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.
   [b]Deflation spooks the Fed[/b] Tha is something I have never under... 		nacl01   POPE 5   07 May 2018
 9:12 PM

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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: Decomposed in POPE 5
Mon, 07 May 18 8:46 PM
Msg. 00734 of 62138
(This msg. is a reply to 00731 by Zimbler0)
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Zimbler0:

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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