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To: russwinter who wrote (24768)	1/16/2005 4:02:30 PM
From: russwinter	Respond to of 110194

<A measure of tightening lending standards in real time would really be a powerful tool now, but the data for that tends to be reported quarterly with a lag, and that will be too late.> The Fed's quarterly survey (this was Oct, 2004) of lending standards shows some tightening in mortgages to individuals, but little change in consumer loans: federalreserve.gov

To: russwinter who wrote (24768)	1/16/2005 6:27:38 PM
From: gregor_us	Respond to of 110194

Never Saw Little Shop of Horrors But Did See Long Days Journey Into Night with Brian Dennehey and Redgrave in 2003. While your use of the former gives a more operatic analogy to the Fed's dillema, I may have to work up something more chronic and depressive, leveraging O'Neil's famous play. Heck, what's literature for? LP

To: russwinter who wrote (24768)	1/16/2005 10:19:22 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 110194

thanks for all the work of posting that Russ. hope you have a supercomputer and some teenage wiz kid to model it for you