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To: tradermike_1999 who wrote (3086)	4/18/2001 12:35:46 PM
From: The Street	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Um, all the indicators said inflation risk is DOWN. That is the reason-- man, pretty easy-- Greeny's number 1 enemy is inflation-- he protects the dollar...

To: tradermike_1999 who wrote (3086)	4/18/2001 1:20:21 PM
From: pezz	Respond to of 74559

Leave it to a bear married to his opinion to try and find something negative in this rate cut. AG is betting on productivity to keep inflation a non event.[as it has for the last 10 years] What he is worried about is a Japan like response to the bubble bursting. Thus he cuts fast and deep. <<What you want to see is stable and steady economic growth. >> Yeah, well that would be nice but easier said from the sidelines than done in reality. <<the US economy this has been achieved when the Federal Reserve has done little.>> Well perhaps the FED did little because the economy was steady........Ever think'o that? Having engineered a ten year expansion that was relatively steady I can't see how you can say he has screwed up atall....His up and down interest rates have done just fine ......relatively speaking.

To: tradermike_1999 who wrote (3086)	4/19/2001 4:17:33 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

I got off the airplane and read about the rate cut. My mind is now at easy, knowing that the new 50 pts decrease in the FED rate will do for the individual ... (a) free up more home equity for speculation (b) set US families to buy a third SUV (c) lower the average age of cars on the road to below 24 months (d) set the ex-CSCO employee up in the real estate brokerage business (e) enable folks to pay their heightened utility bills with alacrity (f) discourage savings (sausages as opposed to nausages) given the pitiful interest rate return and do for the corporation ... (a) borrow and buy back more shares (b) restart the fire of capacity building (c) junk the old inventory and build new ones (d) hire back ex-employees on option stuffed terms (e) allow California to sell those bonds to pay for electricity and grid system and build a fine socialist economy and I believe in magic, Elvis, and that pigs can fly. This round, if it happens for Amazon, I will go short. God is kind. Chugs, Jay