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Four Things to Ponder and Three Ways to Act When it Comes to the Fed

By , Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report -

By Keith Fitz-GeraldInvestment DirectorMoney Morning/The Money Map Report There's one thing you can almost always count on with the government: Coming late to the party. The release of the U.S. Federal Reserve's minutes from the April 29 and 30 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) included several "pronouncements," none of which you're hearing […]

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Jim Rogers: More Pain for the Greenback, and the Failure of the Federal Reserve

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By Keith Fitz-GeraldInvestment DirectorMoney Morning/The Money Map Report SINGAPORE - By bailing out Wall Street and applying "band-aids" to the economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve may well be causing its own downfall - even as it hastens the demise of the greenback as a viable global currency, investment guru Jim Rogers told Money Morning during […]

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Fed Fans Optimism and Fears With Surprise Rate Cut

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By William Patalon III Executive Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report Faced with plunging markets abroad and intensifying recession fears here at home, the U.S. Federal Reserve yesterday (Tuesday) slashed its benchmark interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point, its single-biggest reduction in nearly 25 years. In a related development yesterday, the Bush […]

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