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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (372743)	8/12/2008 8:24:01 PM
From: prosperous	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

There is a misconception that consumer confidence can be instilled by keeping stock market averages higher. The mirage that has been created to instill this illusion is precisely what is working against getting success with the end goal, that is, creating a perception of low inflation, housing stabilizing etc because the consumer is getting directly bitten by these factors in reality and less likely to have confidence in what he is being made to believe