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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Do you remember trump pressuring the fed (already not usually done) to keep interest rates close to 0 BEFORE covid hit?

And then we hit covid, when it actually would've been nice to be able to lower interest to spark the economy and wouldn't you know, it was already too low.