Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues may cut interest rates further and consider adopting less conventional policies when they meet Dec. 15-16.Er, interest rates are already so effectively close to zero that cutting them more isn't even a useful symbolic act. As to the idea of "unconventional policies" - since it's a safe bet Bernanke would never be so unconventional as to tout free market policies - this has to strike fear in the heart of any rational investor.
And yet, Black Friday sales were up by several percentage points. It's a crazy world.
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