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Wall Street was more hysterical than the Money Managers
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09 Aug 2011 13:10 #1
by bailey bud
Wall street is mostly stock trading -
Most of the country's money is actually in harder forms of money - in the financial markets.
The Federal Reserve has pledged to keep interest rates (the rate at which banks borrow) low.
There has been almost no substantive move in Treasury lending rates (borrowing for the US government)
Finally - if you look at Mortgage101.com
there's little meaningful change in mortgage rates (in fact, the trend remains generally down).
The people who control money don't seem to be very concerned about hysterical headlines.
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09 Aug 2011 13:12 #2
by FredHayek
Good point. Personally I think this is just a correction, things are a little worse than they were last month, but not like people are rioting in the streets (in America, not the UK).
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