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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 342775, member: 4626&quot;]Don&#039;t eveny Bernacke&#039;s job at the moment... he is stuck between wanting to lower the interest rates to help ease the mortgage crisis and wanting to raise them to combat inflation.&nbsp; He&#039;s kind of in a lose/lose situation at the moment...</p><p><br /></p><p>If we could eliminate farm subsidies (good luck) and control goverment spending (yeah right!) it would certaintly make it easier for the Fed to use their tools to stabilize the economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody in Congress wants to do anything major while wondering about the election... both for the president and themselves... that might not stick under the next administration/congressional session, depending on who ends up getting elected.&nbsp; Be too hard to get it passed and could end up costing them votes rather than gaining them any.</p><p><br /></p><p>All this adds up to a lot instability and uncertaintly for a while.&nbsp; That&#039;s good for precious metals prices.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t be buying any stock in retail companies or banking companies for a while though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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