[lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarter

[tfast at yorku.ca]

My paranoia has me waiting for a massive period of inflation so the US can
discount its current twin deficits and debt.

Travis

Quoting Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>:


>
> >Some analysts think that the Fed has its eye on potential labor
> >market tightening and concomitant wage gains in 2006 and 2007.
> >Given the final sentence above, this opinion makes sense to me.
>
> I half think they're using "inflation" as a cover for bursting the
> housing bubble.
>
> Doug
>
> ^^^^
> CB: This wouldn't be a reason they would raise , but don't higher interest
> rates make the impact of current account deficit worse ? Foreign lenders get
> higher returns on U.S. notes ? Or not ?
>
> (Then there's the old "don't higher interest rates make more money for
> creditors in the U.S." ?)
>
> My bank now has the name J.P. Morgan on the door.
>
>
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