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QE3′s benefits to the real economy are debatable, but there's no doubt that as oil prices...

  • Friday, September 14, 2012, 4:52 PM ET
    QE3′s benefits to the real economy are debatable, but there's no doubt that as oil prices rise, higher pump prices are a blow to consumers. A successful QE that helps housing could trigger fundamental economic improvements to negate or outweigh higher oil prices; on the flip side, sustained high prices could seep into the cost structure of a broad range of other goods and services.
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  • Well, duh! America moves by truck? Remember that? Of course higher fuel costs drive up everything under the sun. QE is theatrics - cheap ones at that. The market is only pricing in inflation, which everyone knows is like the employment numbers - a great big lie.
    14 Sep 2012, 04:54 PM Reply Like
  • DEBATABLE?

    What is NOT debatable is the fed and Bubble Blowin' Ben,
    ARE the economy and the "ONCE FREE MARKET SYSTEM",
    capitalism is over folks!

    We now have THE FED!
    Its new and improved,
    don't you know?

    This road to perdition is paved with the death of liberty and freedom!
    This corruption that is legion at the executive level,
    flows straight down hill to the Federal Reserve and then to its putrid end with tax cheat Timmy Geithner!

    America needs a LEADER!
    We need Morals and a code of conduct!
    A standard, an ethic that is no where to be found with the current progressives on both side of the aisle!
    John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and all the R.I.N.O's included!

    This republic stands or falls with the election rapidly drawing near!
    Let us not fail this challenge because we sat down!

    God save the republic!
    14 Sep 2012, 05:26 PM Reply Like
  • Hard to have a housing recovery when new jobs are low wage low skill.
    15 Sep 2012, 11:28 AM Reply Like
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