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If Fed Is Less Potent, Fed Should Do More

Many economists say the Fed?s interest rate cuts are less potent than usual because first, the most interest-sensitive part of the economy, housing, is a deflating bubble, and because credit markets are so dysfunctional that the rate cuts aren?t filtering through to the rates consumers and businesses actually pay. That is one reason fiscal stimulus has received such full-throated support.
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