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Inflation or Depression: Pick Your Poison

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Posted By: MDConservative, 6/18/2022 10:10:19 AM

At last we have something that really brings the American people together: inflation. Everyone hates it. It’s the whole topic of conversation at stores, on streets, at the park, or any setting. Want to make a friend? Just walk up to anyone and start complaining about prices. They will join right in and off you go. New besties.

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It's the Democrats holding the bag now, with Biden and Yellen acting the fools with no plan and no ideas except to charge forward into the growing morass. Tucker points out that the supply and demand for money itself has flooded the same forces at work for goods and services. He points out the basic problem: Those TRILLIONS already in circulation need to become absorbed by the economy. The Fed can only mop up some excess. This spending is a flood.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bad-hair 6/18/2022 11:19:33 AM (No. 1189746)
Pick your poison FJB or Democrats in general.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rumblehog 6/18/2022 11:21:12 AM (No. 1189749)
In reading this article I'm left with one question, "What went wrong, Brandon?" I mean, President Trump had the economy humming along just fine. I was managing things just fine, awaiting retirement, then came Brandon. He screwed things up soooo bad that now we're left playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic, instead of a revolver. "Next?"
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 6/18/2022 11:53:20 AM (No. 1189807)
Doesn't have to be a depression, but the idiots running the Fed could certainly create one, and morons in government could, just like FDR did - PREVENT the natural recovery by all sorts of totally destructive and counter productive "government helping" sorts of programs. The best thing for now is to slowly increase interest rates, STOP PRINTING NEW MONEY, and do nothing else "to help". Did I mention to STOP PRINTING MORE MONEY???? That right there will take care of it, eventually.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: stablemoney 6/18/2022 11:53:28 AM (No. 1189808)
Picking is unnecessary, as you are going to get both. Depression and recession always follow inflation. You can't raise revenue by raising prices, as the customers don't have the money, and will go elsewhere. The revenue may increase or stay the same for a while, but the units manufactured will fall, and so will employment and resources purchased, lowering productivity. Wages cannot keep up, jobs will be lost, and recession will follow.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 6/18/2022 1:11:21 PM (No. 1189899)
#4 said what I came to say. No, you don't get to pick. We are going to get both.
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