From: Sokar949@msn.com   
      
   As world resources get depleted, the cost of these resources get more   
   expensive. This causes a natural increase in the inflation index. If you   
   look at the inflation index of the United States of America for the last 20   
   or thirty years, you will see an exponential increase in the rise of this   
   index. This rise is natural and is caused by the cost of natural resouces,   
   oil, copper, steel, ect., being depleted and not renewed. The Hogswart   
   economist Greenspan says that inflation is unnatural, and should be held in   
   check by opressive interest rates. When financial markets hear news of the   
   inflation index going up, these markets go down because the Hogworts   
   economist plan is to punish this inflation index increase by increasing the   
   interest rates. The market forces which have caused the switch from stocks   
   to bonds, have lowered the interest rate on treasury bills of intermediate   
   deternination, so it would be a natural response of the Fed to lower their   
   rates as well to adjust the supply with the demand. The Fed is doing just   
   the opposite, they are increasing interest rate at moderate pace, rather   
   than at a pace determined by the market place. The end result is that the   
   Fed will cause another stock market drop and depression, similar to the one   
   in 2001. The economy is barely on the road to recovery, and consumer   
   confidence in the Fed and the Federal Government and the American stock   
   exchange is at an all time low. What steps need to be taken to put the Fed   
   on the right track? besides murder.   
      
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