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minus-squareDioramaOfShit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 days agoThats okay. Government bailout per usual
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·2 days agoActually the bond market is showing signs that the US really cant afford to bail out much of anything.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoNot how fiat currency works.
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 day agoOh yeah, because currency is just numbers on a computer right? Why bother with these pesky bonds and yield rates at all. Just fire anyone who says you can’t spend your way out of bad headlines.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoHaha, yes, unironically. https://jacobin.com/2026/09/bond-markets-securities-interest-treasury-fed
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoSpare me the tech-bro finance. Yes the fed does set yield rates but there are grave consequences to unreasonable manipulations - it’s the antithesis of the role of the central bank.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day ago“Tech-bro finance”?! Stephanie Kelton, a leading economist who teaches MMT, couldn’t be any further from tech bros. You just don’t understand money. 😄
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoThat’s contrary to the consensus.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 day agoDo you still believe in the loanable funds theory? And the tooth fairy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_relativity#A_Hundred_Authors_Against_Einstein
minus-squarekibblebits@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·2 days agoOne of these days there won’t be a bail out and everything will just catch fire and the whole country will die.
Thats okay. Government bailout per usual
Actually the bond market is showing signs that the US really cant afford to bail out much of anything.
Not how fiat currency works.
Oh yeah, because currency is just numbers on a computer right? Why bother with these pesky bonds and yield rates at all. Just fire anyone who says you can’t spend your way out of bad headlines.
Haha, yes, unironically.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/bond-markets-securities-interest-treasury-fed
Spare me the tech-bro finance.
Yes the fed does set yield rates but there are grave consequences to unreasonable manipulations - it’s the antithesis of the role of the central bank.
“Tech-bro finance”?!
Stephanie Kelton, a leading economist who teaches MMT, couldn’t be any further from tech bros.
You just don’t understand money. 😄
That’s contrary to the consensus.
Do you still believe in the loanable funds theory? And the tooth fairy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_relativity#A_Hundred_Authors_Against_Einstein
One of these days there won’t be a bail out and everything will just catch fire and the whole country will die.