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To: benwood who wrote (58512)	12/1/2009 2:25:23 PM
From: BSGrinder	Respond to of 217713

I think you are right on. I still don't have a single friend or acquaintance who owns gold, yet every one of them was talking about buying tech stocks in 1999 and real estate in 2007. It's not remotely a bubble yet. /BSG

To: benwood who wrote (58512)	12/1/2009 2:56:13 PM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217713

zero signs? Volcker is still here although not FED chairman neither sending interest rates to stratosphere like he did 1980 and sent us crashing. Q What role did monetary policy, easy credit, play in all of this? A The Greenspan policy was part of the problem. If Paul Volcker had been chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve would this have happened? Not likely. He would have put interest rates up in 1996 when Greenspan warned about "irrational exuberance" and the tech bubble. Mr. Volcker would have let Long Term Capital Management go bust, raised interest rates and we never would have been in this current situation.