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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (64648)7/16/1999 4:48:00 AM
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>>Interest rates are lower than their savings based (free market)level and since we are supplying income streams in the form of credit that was not diverted with savings, profits are equally out of whack to the upside. We can similarly produce high asset prices with little or no savings. <<

And so did Japan under the opposite scenario. They had a much higher savings rate while experiencing high asset prices. It begins and ends with the banks. Whatever the posture is adopted by the Office of Comptroller of the Currency or FDIC, determines when the bull market will rest.
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