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To: Little Joe who wrote (30390)	4/18/2003 11:29:17 AM
From: John Madarasz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

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To: Little Joe who wrote (30390)	4/18/2003 5:51:45 PM
From: isopatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

LJ. In recent cycles all that's needed to induce recession is a significant decline in the rate of growth in the monetary aggregates. And with the enormous debt burden piled up in the past 5 years, deflationary risks are the highest they've been since the 1930s. Will have to leave it at that LJ. The real world calls and I'm out the door for the rest of the day. However, if you want to continue this discussion, I'm not the only one, on SI, who's noticed the very weak growth in various money supply measures. <The monetary aggregates are big time stalled. They ramped up nicely in November but we have seen almost no growth over the last 20 weeks or so.> Message 18850120 Perhaps Shack will flesh out the picture a bit further, if you post a question to him. No harm in trying. Frankly, don't think spending most of one's time on PM threads encourages an objective attitude towards what is really going on with monetary policy or anything else. Look, I've got no ax to grind one way or the other. I'm long when there's money to be made there and out when there's not. By contrast, I see far too much self serving spin posted by opinion leaders on the gold mining threads. Some of these people seem to be so obsessed with PM stocks and metals - plus being overly negative about almost everything else in the known universe - that a realistic perspective (vis a vis the facts) went out the window a long time ago. Will have to leave it at that. Good luck in your trading & investing, Isopatch