And, yes, I DO take it personally: A quarter of a percentage point...? N-O-O-O-OOOO...! Make it a HALF a percentage point...!

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

A quarter of a percentage point...? N-O-O-O-OOOO...! Make it a HALF a percentage point...!

doofuses... dickheads... stop propping up the super-rich with OUR goddam money...

Fed Cuts Key Rate by Half-Point

Saying it was acting to head off a recession, the
policy-setting committee of the Federal Reserve Board reduced
its benchmark short-term interest rate, the federal funds
target, to 3 percent, from 3.5 percent.

let the whole goddam thing just COLLAPSE and let's get it the hell over with...

Labels: Ben Bernanke, economic collapse, Federal Reserve System, Wall Street