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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (62287)	12/27/2000 9:34:51 PM
From: m jensen	Respond to of 116762

In following your logic Ron, So in effect your saying the US had to increase the money supply to offset the foriegn invetment as the demand for the US$ would have overwhelmed the supply making it higher? Now Greenspan's 6 rate hikes are what has everyone on the jitters? One could argue they are mearly 3 amounting to a 1% rate hike when you exclude the LTC bailout. I'm kinda new to this economic thing so bear with me. Surely a 1% increase in rates is not the cause of America's woes. It's a well known fact that Gov't reap the benefits of an inflationary monetary policy, could it not be possible that the same foriegn investors have decided the US$ is now in over-supply and the redemptions are more so the (stock markets) woes. Despite the insidious valuations of the past so & so which one knew wouldn't last. A strong $ limits your ability to trade, and a ballooning monetary supply inflates prices through devaluation of the currency does it not? Seems like the US has a double edge sword in it's economy. But i agree when the US gets a cold the rest of the world gets pneumonia. Maybe Top dollar dog comes at too high a price? The Boom?Bush? cycles are engineered so in essence it's time to see how well Engineer Al does at holdin the track! LTC and the Y2K bust will more than likely haunt us for some time to come. With no safe place to go, as you suggest perhaps the threads topic will once again surface to the top of the value pile. It's a rather mighty undertaking trying to understand economics and its effects beyond the typical cycles, nonetheless interesting. So has Japan been contracting it's money supply, since they surely must have been big winners in the trade game?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (62287)	2/6/2001 7:25:19 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116762

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