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To: combjelly who wrote (427692)	10/17/2008 7:32:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578935

"A smooth curve" would be a guess. Or not even a guess depending on how smooth and even you would have it be to fit such a label. I wouldn't guess that it would be a straight line response, and few other people would make such a guess. As the rate increases more people will be at the margin, and more people will reduce or redirect investment, up to a point, and then as it increases even more the amount of additional people making changes will drop (because so many people have already changed and the supply of people in that situation or similar ones is finite). Now that up and down could be a smooth curve, or it could be a rather stepped or uneven one, but when dealing with whole large countries its very rarely one where there is no significant effect until the changes are huge.