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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (241554)	9/11/2007 3:17:35 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bernanke isn't Easy Al. My guess is that he lets us take some pain, leaves rates alone, but he'll be under a LOT of pressure not to. I don't think there's any constituency for raising rates, even if Bernanke thinks he should.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (241554)	9/17/2007 3:19:10 PM
From: steve dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm thinking the fed will do a quarter point tomorrow, not sure how the stock market will react. Sell because it's not enough, or rally with the expectation of more to come.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (241554)	9/17/2007 3:48:41 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

PS you will get a kick out of this sun. My two roomates were mba and PhD at U of chicago and Milton Friedman once came for dinner. I learnded some of this from him over italian food prepared by italian roomie. He said whenever you are sure of a result, figure the opposite. .. dollar about as low as it will go. Lowering rates will have the effect of increasing growth thus strenghtening the dollar. This has happened before i am told. Raise rates, cause a recession, perhaps a severe one and then you really have trouble.