Political & Economic Theory

Are the Fed's recent interest rate cuts good for consumers?

Results so far:

Yes		58%	28 votes	Total: 48 votes
No		42%	20 votes	Total: 48 votes

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by skywriting-on-vapors

Let's SPEND our way forward, I say, to repudiate the pundits, politicians and public policy "experts" who proclaim an economic recession to be inevitable and unavoidable. Yes...read more
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by Arch Barnes

Reason for Fed Funds Rate Cuts Now Clear So now we know. Or at least we have been given (yet again) information as to why the FED raises and lowers interest rates. This, we m...read more

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by Tom Koecke

The Federal Reserve Boards reduction in the rate can be best categorized under the heading "Desperate Measures." The government is on the hook for so much money it guaranteed to...read more
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by Joanne Harris

No, I don't believe that the Federal Cut will be good for consumers. Most of the recipients will not use the extra money for buying useless items in well known stores. They wi...read more
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by Darrell Miller

Nothing the banker-owned Federal Reserve does is good for anyone but bankers, who are instructed by the Federal Reserve's "Modern Money Management" how to create money (bank cre...read more
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by robert lowrey

The answer to the question as to whether the Fed's recent rate cuts are good for consumers, depends, of course, on which consumers one's referring to. Since every sentient being...read more

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