Santa's... er, Satan's Sinfully Wholesome Political Memes

No, I embrace sound monetary policy.

Yeah, and Dayton Kitchens was a black drunk mountain ranger. You embrace sound monetary policy like you age beyond 12.

Mussolini made the trains run on time.

The economy could be booming, but if Palpatine's running the show fuck you for sucking Sith cock.

Okay. Care to share with the class on what that has to with what I said?

That’s how high they should be at times, but the Fed sets the rates ridiculously low.

Why do you think that they should be that high at times?

The rest of the class is smart enough to figure it out. This is why you get kept back.

In other words, you’re full of shit.

To encourage savings over runaway debt and spending or to curb high inflation rates.

Nope. I'm full of material you can't digest.

Otherwise, you'd be perfectly welcome to eat it.

Ever notice how FF and UA cry and scream and piggy-squeal about "you make shit up! " and "you put words in people's mouths! " yet their vocabulary is overflowing with the phrases "in other words" "translation" and "so basically you're saying..."?
Isn't that interesting?
I find that interesting.

Lol. So …, you must have gone to the same economics school that Paladin went to.

Guess what, that’s a bullshit system in which one small population gain large amounts of wealth and a large population gains small amounts of … anything. Hell, most people can’t save because they are paying such high inflation and interest rates.

No shit, that's the whole point. American economic monetary policy has created this problem. If we raise the interest rates and curb inflation, this allows people to save money for the long term gain rather than what we've been doing since the 50s which is punishing consumers by steering them to short term gains and long term debt, especially credit card debt. Imagine if loans weren't so easy to obtain, but inflation was slowed down significantly, people would be able to save, the price of a coke would be back down to 75 cents and gas would be back down to say $1.00-1.50 a gallon. Americans would have to suffer through a few years of high interest rates, but in the long run, it would be worth it.

And then you'd be screaming about the resulting recession.

Are you intentionally being obtuse? If someone can barely pay their bills and not save money, how the hell will increasing prices due to inflation help that person save money?

It won’t. I said we should increase interest rates in order to lower inflation.

Yeah, this is making pretty much the opposite of the argument you think it's making.

Increase interest rates on car loans, mortgages, credit card payments? This thought process is moronic and always has been. Increasing interest rates isnt keeping inflation down. Inflation is just corporations increasing prices because people have money to save. To fight that, you need anti bullshit-like-this laws to prevent corporations from increasing prices without increasing wages.

High interest rates discourage spending and investment, your plan could easily cause a dramatic rise in the unemployment rate, at the same time people's mortgage payments skyrocket.

The weird world of conservative "art" includes this thing where they draw women who they simultaneously both hate and desperately want to fuck.

Anything to tapdance around the actual theme of that comic, right?

The theme is easily debunked bullshit.

Heh. Small world.

The second image is mine from an interview I shot in March 2020.

That’s why you introduce it gradually over time. You give the market a chance to adjust. I’m not sure the exact details of how it was done in the 80s, but it worked.