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Fed moves to halt market meltdown

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

If a week is a long time in politics, then two days in the financial markets can be even longer. Last Wednesday, William Poole, president of the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank, told Bloomberg TV that the subprime mortgage rout did not threaten US economic growth and that only a “calamity” would justify an interest rate cut.

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