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...looming in the shadows of last week?s PPI. The Consumer Price Index, of course, is the inflation number we can spot at the mall, and with discount wars festering across the retail scape, it?s hard to imagine July prices doing anything levitationary - at least not enough to scare Greenspan into cutting out the rate cuts August...
...inclined, should have absolutely no reservations about cutting short-term interest rates August 21 when the Fed meets again, and his seventh cut of the year should bring the Fed funds rate down another quarter-point notch to 3.5 percent, or - if he wants to scare us - 3.25 percent. The bad news - and this is the least certain, mind you, of the bad news we got this week - is that some folks are starting to make noises about? DEFLATION...
...times going another ten years. Economically, the checks may be coming along at the right time - while consumers are apparently still confident enough to spend the things. The trick will be to get them into mailboxes and back out into the marketplace before one of two things start to scare people: the unemployment rate, which is going nowhere but up, and the stock market, which is going nowhere at all. Hopefully by winter, Greenspan's cuts will kick in and business will feel ready to pitch in with some multiplier-ready dollars of their...
...what do I do with all these failed CDs? A colleague here told me her father hangs his in the garden to scare away birds and deer. Any other ideas? The reader with the most inventive use for a useless CD wins a box of coasters...
...airlines maintain there is no evidence so far that suggests a busy aircraft cabin might be more dangerous than sitting still anywhere, whether on a crowded train, bus, car or even at home. Many carriers feel they have been unfairly singled out as the scapegoats of a health scare driven by the media and "no win, no fee" lawyers such as Slater & Gordon. "There's a lot of hype and a lot of lawyers," growls one Asian airline executive. "There are people who might have been genuinely ill and people who see a court case." Airlines insist passengers are primarily...