It feels a lot different this time, ... Traditionally, you get interest rate cuts to stimulate domestic demand that is just foundering. ? But the U.S. economy doesn't need a kick in the pants right now to get it going.

What we are looking for is interest rate cuts to be beneficial to the market.

Rate cuts may spur credit growth, however a government will have to keep a closer eye on it's inflation in order to minimize the demand pull inflationary effect

We've all been conditioned to say, 'lower interest rates, higher stock prices, better buying opportunity,'

The second time we played, Lakewood surprised us with a (man-to-man defense). They've traditionally been a zone-oriented team and we just didn't respond to it at all. This week, we made it a point to move a lot on offense and mix it up to get everyone involved.

We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through higher mortgage and interest rates and today's statement from the bank bears that out,