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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (732765)	3/17/2006 2:44:54 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

[the 'markets' and the 'economy' ain't the exact same things.] "That can certainly be argued," Well... yeah. :) "but if the economy were in the trash can," Don't believe I used those words.... "then also why are rates being raise?" To mop up the excess liquidity in the system, and because there is a good deal of pricing pressure building up from the Producer Prices (believe I mentioned those two points...), and because that is the Fed's job --- to fight inflation. Rates certainly ain't rising because of labor price pressure, or because of tight factory capacity utilization rates....