Will worsening economic conditions and the war in Iraq bring about monetary easing?
*The Economist, March 16, 2008:
"THE Federal Reserve's rate-setting committee meets on Tuesday March
18th. The Fed has already slashed its key interest rate from 5.25% to
3% since last September. A further reduction of at least half a
percentage point is expected after next week's meeting, in response to
fresh signs of fragility in the American economy and the worsening
state of global financial markets.
THE fifth anniversary of war in Iraq comes around on Thursday March
20th. Last year's "surge" of American troops, along with help from
Sunni tribes and a truce from the most troublesome Shia leader, Muqtada
al-Sadr, has damped down violence. Even so American voters remain
mostly eager to quit the country. And Iraqis continue to make only
sporadic political progress on such matters as rehabilitating
supporters of the previous regime and sharing power between regions."
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