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re: Why do the talking heads keep mentioning the 150% run up in the last 4 years
Posted on 8/9/13 at 1:43 pm to Doc Fenton
Posted on 8/9/13 at 1:43 pm to Doc Fenton
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don't think you can plausibly blame Greenspan for lengthy 30-year secular interest rate cycles. He didn't cause the run-up in rates from 1950 to 1980
Fair enough.
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and he didn't cause the run-down in rates from 1980 to now... nor did he cause the immense global deflationary pressures caused by the globalization following the USSR's collapse, with NAFTA, GATT, the WTO & China, the EU/EMU/EFTA, etc.
He was definitely part of this, though. His single-minded focus on depressing interest rates was a mistake. If you don't believe me, listen to him:
LINK
The inability to price risk (or gain a return on relatively stable investments) has driven a good bit of the volatility over the past 6 years.
The labor market is related to this, but they do operate on somewhat independent tracks at times.
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Posted on 8/9/13 at 1:47 pm to Ace Midnight
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His single-minded focus on depressing interest rates
The link you gave was an article about fin-reg issues, and I don't like the Fed even being involved with all that nonsense anyway.
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