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Daily Pfennig
by
Chuck Butler
on
07-09-2008
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Filed under: Dollar, Oil, Inflation, Deflation, Euro, Ben Bernanke, Interest Rates, Japan, G8, John Mauldin, Iran
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Introduction This week we had two more Federal Reserve members repeat what has become the theme for their chorus, but not one the market seems to be paying much attention to. It should be. The market believes the Fed will soon start to cut rates, perhaps as early as first quarter of next year. It is...
Introduction The Fed elected to pause in its rate hiking assault on inflation this week. With the backward looking data pointing to higher inflation that must mean they expect the economy to slow down and thus tame what incipient inflation is lurking around the corner. But wait, the data this week suggests...