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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: bart13 who wrote (69986)9/19/2006 10:48:13 PM
From: John McCarthy  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
Hi bart

I respect your time so I don't want to waste it ....

(a) Show me a 40 or 50 year graph that just compares
(1) actual (announced) inflation levels vs
(2) long term interest rates ......

if they don't move in the SAME direction I am wrong ...

I introduced the word "announced" because I was trying
to get clarity from what Mike wrote .....

if the thinking is that we're gonna have an announced
rate of 3% inflation and a real rate of 10% then
I don't know how this will square with

higher wage increases as discussed in Mike's post ...

I'm not certain (and I could be wrong) that we can
disconnect wage increases from announced inflation rates

if I read you right (and I could be wrong) then you
are suggesting that OTHERS have suggested
the policy might be to let housing prices come down?

if so - then why are we jumping thru all the hoops
that Mike's post suggests ....

jmo - but the structure of Mike's plan really could
take the pressure off the time-bomb ....

i.e. this driving of long term rates down-ward
to let current holders re-finance - its sharp

I'm just trying to ferret out how the fed
would engineer this ....

lets not forget - the fed cannot (jmo) sit on inflation
rates forever ....

Why don't you have the final post on this ....

regards,
John
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