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To: elmatador who wrote (6854)	5/31/2006 7:38:41 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217699

I don't think so but it is the same kind of approach that the IMF uses to economic crises. This time around as I got to the end of teaching the macroeconomics part of my Introductory Economics course this Spring I was getting more and more convinced that the Fed does more damage than benefit. They want to stop inflation - so they raise interest rates and withdraw liquidity to stop the potential pass through of oil and commodity prices to final output prices. The only way that can happen is a profit crunch (unless productivity growth miraculously accelerates further). In the worst case scenario a recession.