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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: justwhatuwant who wrote (1395)	3/6/2004 1:45:33 PM
From: justwhatuwant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

I agree with Mish's view, that rates decrease near term. That makes sense from a fundamental, political, contrarian and intuitive point-of-view. I also wondered what "rabbit out the hat" tricks the Bush/Greenspan duo might pull to get us through November. This is definitely one of them ... "On the negative side of the ledger, gasoline and energy prices are acting as a huge tax increase. My bet is that the government will soon stop (or at least slow down) topping off the strategic petroleum reserves. They are increasing them quite steadily, and it does put upward pressure on prices. Would Bush open up the reserves to lower prices in the summer as a further stimulus? " - John Mauldin 2000wave.com