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Fed Can Pay Now or Later

By Jim Cramer

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 We lost tech. We lost retail. We lost the Fed. And we lost our way, or at least we found our way for certain down the 1990 path. I was hoping we could avoid that vicious and savage road because the Fed would be well on its way to get the rates to the point where all of this junk structured product could come back to life. I was hoping that we would get the rates low enough that those who are shorting the dollar would realize that the bottom has been reached. Nah, that would have been too smart. Now we have to face the possibility that we will be down 10% from here aropos of 1990. It is a distinct possibility, because we know that this week the cordon came off the subprime market courtesy of Cisco, which said the financial companies aren't ordering like they used...

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