Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Las Vegas, Nevada

Kevin Depew  Mar 25, 2008 8:15 am

Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Las Vegas, Nevada
 
Deconstructing the Sin City regional.
 

 
The seedings are set, the terms are in place. The question is, Who advances and who goes home early? Minyanville continues taking a closer look at the pairings in each of the four regions.


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Minyanville Meta Madness Without question INFLATION entered the tournament not just as the number one seed in the Las Vegas regional, but as the tourney favorite overall. With Wheat, Corn, Soybeans, Sugar and Oil averaging double figures, INFLATION presents a well-balanced attack that is very difficult to defend.

Although number two seed SLOW GROWTH exited early courtesy of second round spoiler FED FUNDS RATE, the real surprise in this region was the upset of number three seed FANNIE MAE by NATIONALIZATION. What many may have forgotten is that NATIONALIZATION actually wrote the FANNIE MAE playbook and used that bit of inside knowledge to spoil FANNIE MAE's game plan.

The regional final between INFLATION and NATIONALIZATION was a bit closer than expected, but INFLATION was able to avoid the upset by keeping NATIONALIZATION off the boards.

Check back tomorrow for the Stockton, California regional and click here for the Detroit, Michigan one.
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03-25-2008, 12:27 pm
Haha, well hopefully the winner of the drawing can leave collapsing economies on the Bernanke bracket won't have to worry about anything like that in San Antonio.
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03-25-2008, 12:33 pm
Some of us have been waiting for the FED to bump the interest rate up to 5% and stop the runaway inflation. Our "Land of the Free" bailouts for corporate America continues and is increasing at an increasing rate. It is time to pay the pip
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03-25-2008, 6:32 pm
Ole Inflation late in season. Inflation is sneaky quick and the stat sheet does not relect their strength. The team plays long and disrupts average size opponents fundamentals. Everyone seems to pack-it-in to defend against them. Couple games the
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03-26-2008, 10:06 am
Indeed, the dominance of the big men in this tourney is amazing. DEFLATION and its 7' center cleaned up the Stockton bracket and we see strong play by the big man here again.

Make no mistake: this tourney doesn't favor strea
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03-27-2008, 10:23 am
Bill,

I agree that as a matter of sound economic policy/long run economic growth, interest rate increases should have started awhile ago, but be not afraid because Ben Bernanke's inflation "Good Times" afro phase is abo
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