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-misanthroptimist

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17. Of course, Larry.

Reply to speak easy (Original post)

Mon Mar 29, 2021, 02:28 PM

Mar 2021

Summer's school of economics basically says that anything helpful to the "little" people is inflationary, budget busting, morally hazardous, or...whatever they can think up.

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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