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alephblog.com - 9/26/2008
Entering the Endgame for Monetary Policy
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x Look at the H.4.1 report . We may have finally hit the panic phase of monetary policy, where the Fed increases the monetary base dramatically. They are pumping the “high-powered” money into loans: $20 billion for Primary credit $80 billion for Primary dealer and ...
ecb.int - 10/2/2008
Monetary policy decisions
— ecb.int — PRESS RELEASE 2 October 2008 - Monetary policy decisions At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the... ECB decided that the minimum bid rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit ... (more) Monetary policy decisions
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inflationary policy response and fed illiquidity
Decline and Fall of Western Civilization — david merkel highlights the new deviation from earlier policy, which highlights both the severity of the ongoing delevering and the inflationary will of the fed. ...

An Echo to the Obama Administration
College Analysts — ... to his children, will make that a “yes.” There are numerous problems, but I believe real change must begin with shoring up our own house. Government spending, and debt, must be brought under control. Credit default swaps on “risk-free” government debt are trading over 40 basis points for an instrument yielding less than 4%. Swap spreads have actually been negative on occasion. None of this suggests the US is still perceived to be a AAA/Aaa credit. This is to say nothing about the unfunded liabilities on the public balance ...

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