Not on your life. Despite the parade of Wall Street types on the tube these days fretting about such a thing, the chances are nil. But not the way they define it. They deem that a recession would constitute evidence that the Fed has, yet again, "gone too far".
How many of them openly worried that the Fed would go "too far" when it was cutting rates? How many fretted that the production-free consumption, historic trade deficits, and inflation that would result would be harmful? Skyrocketing home prices, borrowers lured into insolvency by easy money, and eventually soaring energy prices?
One has to wonder if these guys have the average American in mind when they think about what would be harmful. Harmful to Wall Street big money firms and corporate execs who make money by inflating their shares and self-dealing in stock options, just like the government does with our currency?
Let's put it the other way around. If we do not get an old-fashioned, consumption-led recession, it would constitute evidence that the Fed has, yet again, not gone far enough.
How many of them openly worried that the Fed would go "too far" when it was cutting rates? How many fretted that the production-free consumption, historic trade deficits, and inflation that would result would be harmful? Skyrocketing home prices, borrowers lured into insolvency by easy money, and eventually soaring energy prices?
One has to wonder if these guys have the average American in mind when they think about what would be harmful. Harmful to Wall Street big money firms and corporate execs who make money by inflating their shares and self-dealing in stock options, just like the government does with our currency?
Let's put it the other way around. If we do not get an old-fashioned, consumption-led recession, it would constitute evidence that the Fed has, yet again, not gone far enough.
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