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Should be a wild four years.

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Await said:
I didnt have the heart to say it, everyone is suddenly attempting to become economic experts and I love it. I feel like every doomposter could become 30-50 IQ higher by just feeding their doompost prompt into chat gpt and using that, sad.
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Don't worry USA economy is still tanking hard and will be overtaken by China faster than previously projected.
 
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deleuzeon said:
People are more concerned that an egg costs $1.50 than they are interested in sprawling child abuse cases from well over a decade ago.
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'People' are psychos then. I think my head is going to explode if I have to hear about eggs one more time, and I would be fine paying ten times as much for them if in exchange the list of every subhuman 'influencer' and Hollywood elite in that black book got into the publics' hands. I want for there to be no dark corner for them to scurry away to and to lose absolutely everything. The gorillions of dollars they've made going up in smoke comes out to more than I pay for some eggs.
 
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Kola said:
Don't worry USA economy is still tanking hard and will be overtaken by China faster than previously projected.
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Im 100% certain you dont know anything about the chinese economy, especially since you linked a hong kong index, but you could try zooming out and looking at some long term stats instead
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Consider that in order to combat inflation, you have to pull back the monetary supply, in this case, they've been trying to decelerate the amount of dollars entering the market, but havent gotten it to a negative rate yet. Notice that the only times we've done this is in periods like 2008 or pre-covid. We've been teetering on a recession for over a decade that we've been putting off by keeping the supply of money enter the economy ever expanding (which is also compounding). We could continue to simply print more and go till the sidewalk ends, but in reality the only way to get things back to stable is to cool off with a recession, it just has to happen.

hope this helps in your future tard sperging endeavors
 
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Desu Mountain said:
"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, and commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."

Check chapter 8. I remember more stuff but I'm not in the mood to read the whole book again right now.
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Shame on you for not posting the most autistic single greatest rendition ever put to binary.
 
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mlanguishi said:
ETA a lot of people think 'deflation' is when 'inflation drops from 5% to 4%'. People are so economically illiterate with things like this it's painful to even bother to explain that sometimes. I see that all the time. I mostly don't even bother to correct them.
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Yeah deflationary spirals are extremely dangerous. We very nearly had an uncontrolled deflationary spiral after 2008.

For anyone curious how exactly a deflationary spiral works and why it's bad, here's a very, very basic overview: deflation in real terms means the decline in the value of services and goods. Shallow and short deflationary periods generally are not considered particularly harmful, especially if consumer confidence doesn't tank. Severe deflation means that bank holdings lose a significant amount of real value on their balance sheets, so in turn they tighten their lending, which often leads to debtor defaults, which further reduces the value of bank holdings, which reduces the real value on their balance sheets, so they tighten their lending. Meanwhile less and less money is flowing in the economy. Debtors go under, the people they employ are laid off, consumers default on their consumer debt, consumer confidence plummets. Cash becomes a valuable enough asset to horde and the weak consumer confidence leads to a run on the banks. The banks collapse.

In other news, Trump's administration announced $1bn in bird flu relief. Specifically $500m to biosecurity and preventing the lateral spread of the flu, $400m to affected farmers, and $100m on vaccine and treatment research and distribution. Additionally they've announced a nonspecific initiative to "cut needless regulatory burden" on farmers to help increase output, but I'd like to see exactly what they mean by that. Overall it's a good package. It likely won't be enough for the long term but it's enough of a start.

One of the regulatory measures his administration could take which would immediately help would be to allow the sale of meat chicken eggs. Currently, eggs from meat chickens are required to be discarded. There's no real reason for this. I think this is an obvious measure which would help Americans immediately. We'll see if they do it.
 
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A Cardboard Box said:
Severe deflation means that bank holdings lose a significant amount of real value on their balance sheets
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the economy has been fucked far longer than anyone wants to admit, its just whether the media wants to gaslight you about its health on any given week... Id be interested to see how this will hold up in the face of deflationary measures...
 
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The Noise said:
it wasn't until I got a super based teacher in high school that I finally got to learn about the the Treaty of Versailles and the fact that the end of WWI and the events that followed thereafter were major contributing factors to the start of WWII.
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That is insane. One of the things I do remember about my history classes is joking about which 'Treaty of Versailles' (of which there are a comical amount) we were talking about on a given day. Ridiculous how dumbed down and shaven down it sounds like it became. How they don't bother to contextualize the German everyman's desire to Make the Rhine Great Again after getting assraped by concessions in WWI seems like a very big thing to just skim over.
 
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Ivalice said:
Alright Patel you jeet fuck do the needful and redeem the Epstein files already.
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We are never getting that full list, and if and when we do, it's going to be when everyone involved is dead. Too many high-profile people are involved to let that shit slide. I hate that they turned this into some cheap form of entertainment for faggot Twitter influencers. While helping the Tate brothers get back over here. So much for protecting women and girls, kek.

Also, how much do you guys want to bet that Melina shilling for the Take It Down Act is so that they don't have to deal with AI-generated gay shit of her husband and Elon? :story:
 
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NSA Intern said:
While that's certainly a reason, it isn't the reason, should it never come out.
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I don't disagree with you, but I think it's the reason why they're not going to actually do it. If they do, everyone is going to the slammer or getting guillotined. I know they want to keep their gay fanbase hyped and convince them they're doing good. But there are better ways to do that than making a mockery out of pedophilia and trafficking victims.
 
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Democrats suddenly care about the stock market now after spending years crying about how Wall Street was evil and unfettered capitalism. Mexico is now our strongest ally despite the fact they openly send criminals and drugs to our country and outright refuse to stop migrants from crossing through their country and into ours. Canada is our greatest ally despite being nothing but a parasite for years that's openly insulted us while simultaneously enjoying the blanket of our military protection and near unfettered trade with the largest economy in the world at their doorstep.
 
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