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To: Les H who wrote (90592)	9/26/2007 10:27:32 AM
From: saveslivesbyday	Respond to of 306849

"Fed's Plosser says rate cuts may cause inflation to accelerate" As my teenage kids would say: "Duhhhh..."

To: Les H who wrote (90592)	9/26/2007 11:39:42 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Lots of juice. Over 150 billion in outstanding repos from the Fed/Treas. Also the lending from the SOMA starts to ramp up from the 3rd or 4th day from the end of each month.

To: Les H who wrote (90592)	9/26/2007 11:48:58 AM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

...or get the voting members to do a "talk tough" headfake, then vote to ease. So easy a caveman could do it!

To: Les H who wrote (90592)	9/26/2007 12:02:41 PM
From: lifeisgood	Respond to of 306849

4% yoy CPI "Baked in the Cake" hussmanfunds.com best... LIG

To: Les H who wrote (90592)	9/26/2007 12:34:56 PM
From: Mike Johnston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Their modus operandi: -Talk tough on inflation to convince people they are tight, while conducting an extremely inflationary monetary policy. -conceal the growth in money supply -repeat "inflation is 1.9% " lie so long that it becomes true in the minds of many people, so that they can proceed to rip them off with -5% real interest rates.