After spending yesterday in Berlin, I can tell you the German government is mightily fed up with all this speculation - and fed up with getting blamed for everything bad happening in the global economy (last week's cover of the Economist, for example).
So although we may all be fed up with the economy's torpor, and would be keen for a bit of renewed growth, it is not clear that any growth sparked by a new housing-linked consumer boom would be altogether healthy.
They are beginning to get fed up with all the blame and criticism and misrepresentation.
The possibilities are really endless and the only risk is the slight chance that fans get fed up of all this superhero stuff.
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Professor GONZALO SANTOS (Sociology, California State University Bakersfield): We, the immigrants living in the United States, are fed up with all these xenophobic attacks on our communities.
Already, it seems, Italian, French and German housewives (and house-husbands) are getting fed up with all the slicing, chopping and marinading involved in preparing meals for their pampered families.
"There is still a stigma associated with this pastime, " says Stefaan de Keersmaeker, a 41-year-old information-technology expert from Melbourne, who founded The Older Gamers because he "got fed up with all the juvenile behavior" from younger players online.
We speak to people all the time and they are fed up with Labour.
But do you know what people are fed up with most of all?
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That's despite all the talk here about Germans being "fed up" with the euro.
But afraid of a deflation that is quite simply not deflation, the Fed will use all of its powers to prop up the housing and mortgage assets that necessarily need to fall in order for a recovery to take shape.
What fun it is to think about all that new, Fed-created money bubbling into the markets, pushing up everything in its path.
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The Fed needs to approve all such transactions and this one is getting caught up in larger issue of how and when banks should be able to increase dividends.
Worried that all that pent-up credit would fuel reckless lending or inflation, the Fed simply doubled the reserve requirement, transforming excess reserves into mandatory ones.
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Back then, as central banks all over flooded the banking system with cash, the Fed wanted banks to step up to the window and keep money flowing.
The closely watched Philadelphia Fed Business Index surged up from minus 10.7 in November all the way up to plus 8.1 in December, with big increases in both new orders and shipments.
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Yes, I understand all the bad things and the unintended consequences that could occur as a result of the Fed picking up another trillion dollars or so of U.S. Government Bonds.
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The Fed joins so many other government agencies on Twitter that folks cannot keep up with them all.
"They're tired, they're fed up and they've got low morale and I think they've probably heard it all before, " he said.
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