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WHITT

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Reply to speak easy (Original post)

Mon Mar 29, 2021, 12:52 PM

Mar 2021

Both the current chair of the Fed, Powell, and the former chair of the Fed and current Treasury Secretary, Yellen, just don't see any runaway inflation.

Summers seems to have forgotten how many YEARS the Fed has been STRUGGLING in their attempts to get inflation UP to a normalized 2.5%.

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Larry Summer says Build Back Better "may trigger the highest inflation in more than half a century". [View all] speak easy Mar 2021 OP

Larry can fuck off Voltaire2 Mar 2021 #1

Pretty sure the translation here is JNelson6563 Mar 2021 #2

+! speak easy Mar 2021 #3

Yet WHITT Mar 2021 #4

Just another shill harumph Mar 2021 #5

'friedman lite' - good one empedocles Mar 2021 #6

Chile: Minton Friedman was a criminal. speak easy Mar 2021 #8

Nobody listens to this clown Ritabert Mar 2021 #7

Fuck off Larry Summers, we don't buy your shit anymore. Funny how you remained silent Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #9

Doesn't he always say that? Polly Hennessey Mar 2021 #10

...IF ...IF taxes are not increased fire the rich, I agree uponit7771 Mar 2021 #11

Higher than the early 1980s 16 plus percent??? karynnj Mar 2021 #12

OPEC oil prices drove 1970's inflation, speak easy Mar 2021 #13

True - and that may have given us Ronald Reagan karynnj Mar 2021 #14

Ad Reagan befitted from the energy policies speak easy Mar 2021 #15

Same shit, different day. lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #16

Of course, Larry. -misanthroptimist Mar 2021 #17

The markets don't seems to think so! PortTack Mar 2021 #18

So buy gold if you're nervous about inflation and Build Back anyway! DFW Mar 2021 #19

Who f'ing asked him? 2naSalit Mar 2021 #20