Saturday, December 6, 2008

Will Rate Cuts Revive Flagging Housing Market?

The Great economist John M Keynes said interest rate cuts were about as effective as pushing a piece of string.
His point was that in a great depression with very low confidence and expectations of falling asset prices, we tend to move into a liquidity trap. A liquidity trap means lower interest rates fail to increase [...]

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[Source: Finance Blog]

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