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To: TimF who wrote (52081)	8/22/2001 8:31:32 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Tim re: I think the real interest rate does matter. I agree but "real" interest is not that easy to control. re: If that was it then the best strategy would simply be to keep rates high almost all the time yes and no, looking at the chart of US 10 year T rates for the last 200+ years I see that only during very short period our rates were actually lower than they are right now. Rates started to drop from relatively high, for the time, levels of 6% in 1924 and were dropping all the way into mid 1940's to ~2% which seems had very little effect on depression. On the other hand after-war years were good for US yet that was the time of steadily rising rates. Regards -Albert