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2000-03-22 Thread Doug Henwood
Edwin Dickens wrote: Either a new consensus forecast for interest rates will form or the Fed will begin to lose its sacred "credibility." Or the Fed will have to tighten more than it would have otherwise to achieve the desired dampening effect on stocks the real economy. Doug PS: Love all

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: U.S. MonetaryPolicy

2000-03-22 Thread Edwin Dickens
Presumably by "tighten more" you mean abandoning the 25-basis-point increases in the Federal funds rate and the discount rate at each FOMC meeting, for 50-basis point increases at meetings or even increases between meetings? At this point, without spikes in the price indexes to justify such a