71.   Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan last month suggested the central bank might boost the cost of borrowing to slow the economy, even before signs of faster inflation appear.

72.   Finally, mortgage rates are likely to keep rising as Federal Reserve policymakers push the overnight bank lending rate higher to slow the economy.

73.   First, they slow the economy by forcing consumers to spend less on goods and services and more on debt payments.

74.   Firmly in the new economy camp, they argue raising rates runs the risk of slowing the economy too much and pushing unemployment higher.

75.   For that reason alone, Greenspan can justify raising rates to slow the economy.

76.   For more than a year the Fed has been tapping on those brakes, trying to slow an economy that it thought was growing too fast.

77.   Front said reports of a strong economy have raised concern that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to slow the economy and stave off inflation.

78.   Greenspan has said that he is not targeting stocks, but it is clear that a market correction would help him slow the economy.

79.   Greenspan said on Saturday that U.S. central bankers may next have to fight the effects of falling prices as the financial crisis in Asia slows economies around the world.

80.   Greenspan suggested Saturday the Fed may next have to fight the effects of falling prices, a possibility as the financial crisis in Asia slows economies around the world.