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Rising Prices, Falling Dollar Stoke Memories of the '70s

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 7:46am at Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
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Rising Prices, Falling Dollar Stoke Memories of the '70s

By Neil Irwin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 4, 2008; A01

Rep. Bart Gordon on student loan solvency

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Posted on May 2, 2008 - 8:41am at The Donkey's Mouth
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From the Tennessean:

 

"I have no regrets on any of the Federal Reserve policies that we initiated back then because I think they were very professiona

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Posted on April 9, 2008 - 6:08am at Stone Soup Station
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Yeah, but lots of idiotic public policies have been "professionally done," Alan. Hell, even slavery was "professionally done"....

"If you've got a job, hang on to it the best you can."

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Posted on April 5, 2008 - 9:00am at Stone Soup Station
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Sage advice, except that most folks aren't really in control of being able to "hang on" to a job if cuts are mandated further up the chain of command.....

Another Rate Cut

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Posted on January 30, 2008 - 2:34pm at Robert Dean Realestate
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The Fed has cut the Federal Funds Rate again.
In a brief statement explaining their decision, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues said that “financial markets remain under considerable stress.”
The Fed move was approved on a 9 to 1 vote. Richard Fisher, president of the Fed’s Dallas regional bank, dissented, preferring no change [...]

Hint: his name's not on the dollar

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Posted on January 19, 2008 - 9:45am at TennesseeTicket
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I found this funny story involving mistaken identity in the halls of power on the blog Cato-at-liberty:

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur [(D-Ohio)] came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Greenspan Blasts Bush

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Posted on September 15, 2007 - 7:41am at Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan "says the Republican party to which he has belonged all his life deserved to lose power last year for forsaking its small-government principles," the Wall Street Journal reports. "Greenspan delivers the withering critique in his memoir, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World."

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