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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by daxfohl on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:36PM (#22560139)
No idea how you get downvoted. Market has already sold off the gains from the stimulus. Lasted a few minutes. Not very well spent money IMO.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by chasd00 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:08PM (#22560549)
it's not a stimulus it's loans to prevent a liquidity crisis and the credit markets from freezing up. It was the credit markets in 2008 that nearly killed the world economy. They dwarf the stock market.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by daxfohl on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:39PM (#22560888)
Still, given the market was like Meh, seems like nobody thought it was very useful.

That said, yeah I see how you are right. Lots of businesses run month to month. When they run out of cash they go bankrupt. Once enough companies do so, the economy takes much longer to recover.

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:32PM (#22561405)
Maybe keeping the market from doing something much worse than "meh" was the point, and this was a success?
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