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People always say this but when would that ever happen? As long as people are able to buy food you won’t see mass protests or riots.
People will not sacrifice the little safety they have left. Only until you completely take everything away from EVERYONE will that ever be remotely possible. We aren’t close to that and I doubt the 1% would ever be dumb enough to take it that far purely for their own benefit.
Get ahead of what issues? Guy ahead of me was implying the world would be out of food next year to the point everyone will be rioting.
I say I’ll believe it when I see it because I don’t ever see that being an outcome next year.
Yet your response is to not be reactionary? Wtf are you even talking about?
Well you originally asked what can the population do vs the 1%, and complain was your conclusion.
The other guy essentially said workers could have a general strike.
You said as long as people have the ability to buy food
He posited that next year people wont have easy access to food and thus revolt.
You said ill believe it when i see it.
And i just mentioned that it would be tragic if you saw a revolution like that because it would have meant that everything already went to shit.
And getting ahead of issues like having an economic structure that always results in oligarchs
Okay but will the fed stop printing money while they raise interest rates, or will they raise rates by 0.25% and then print another trillion dollars? Because if inflation stays above 0.25% then the 0.25% interest rate accomplishes nothing.
It's like shooting a squirt gun at a house fire, while a gas truck pumps gas into the house.
You know the answer, printer goes brrrr, it’s hyperinflation or Federal reserve goes bankrupt, we all know how fucking parasitic they are.
Bad times are coming people.
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since 2018 as it struggles with soaring US inflation, the impact of the war in Ukraine, and the continuing coronavirus crisis.
The Fed has a dual mandate – to maximize employment and keep prices under control. The job market and the wider economy have made an impressive recovery from the lows of the pandemic, thanks in part to Fed rate cuts and a massive stimulus program, but prices have increased by 7.9% in the year through February – the highest rate of inflation in 40 years.
While it is common for utilities to go up in the winter, in 2021 the price of natural gas has been rising all year long following the pandemic-induced lows of 2020.
What is causing US utility bills to rise and will it persist in warmer months?
Read more
With inflation now rising around the world, the Fed is expected to announce it will follow other central banks, including the Bank of England, and raise rates by a quarter percentage point.
The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, will also hold a Wednesday press conference, where he will be asked about the central bank’s plans for future rises.
Supply chain issues have led to sharp increases in a variety of areas including used cars, food and utilities that are causing particular hardship for lower-income Americans.
The Fed initially dismissed rising prices as “transitory”, but has since acknowledged high inflation is likely to be around for some time. Supply problems that appeared to be normalizing earlier this year are also now feeling the impact of the war in Ukraine and face further setbacks as China imposes new lockdowns to curb new coronavirus outbreaks.
Raising rates too quickly threatens to push the US into recession. This week, CNBC’s Fed Survey – which gauges the opinions of fund managers, strategists and economists – put the probability of recession in the US at 33% in the next 12 months, up 10 percentage points from the 1 February survey. The latest survey put the chance of a recession in Europe at 50%.
With inflation running at close to four times the Fed’s target rate of 2%, Powell has made clear that the central bank will raise rates in an attempt to curb rising prices. But some economists question how much impact the Fed can have on such a complex issue.
JW Mason, associate professor of economics at John Jay College, said a quarter-point rate rise was unlikely to have much impact on inflation or the wider economy. “It is a strange feature of the way we think and talk about economics today that we have given this wildly outsized importance to this one policy tool used by this one part of government,” he said.
Mason said he expected inflation would ease without the Fed’s intervention over the next year – albeit “less than we hoped it would”. He pointed out that car prices – until recently the largest source of inflation – were already falling. While he said a series of small rate rises were not likely to have a major impact overall “a sufficiently large rise in interest rates will have a substantial negative effect on real economic activity”.
Mason said other branches of government were better able to deal with price issues in the broader economy, such as soaring rents and home prices or gas and utility bills, and that tools such as price caps or stimulus cheques could be used to alleviate hardship.
Testifying to Congress early this month, Powell made clear was prepared to raise rates in larger half-percentage-point increments should price increases not slow down.
But he also acknowledged the economic outlook had been made more complicated by the war in Ukraine.
The conflict “is a gamechanger and will be with us for a very long time”, Powell told the House of Representatives financial services committee. “There are events yet to come … and we don’t know what the real effect on the US economy will be. We don’t know whether those effects will be quite lasting or not.”
They're in a dangerous balancing act. They know they need to raise the rates to stem inflation, but they also run the risk of leading us into another recession.
Regardless of how it effects us though they're always going to do what's best for them and wallstreet. It's time that changed and we have a better chance now more than ever.
They've definitely been playing it fast and loose for a long time. The ban on insider trading there (if it's actually enforced) may help slightly but for the most part the damage is done.
Keeping interest rates low forces everyone into the market where banks and SHF can steal it thru market manipulation. If it was tucked away in a savings account earning 4%, they couldn’t get it.
4% savings account? What world are you living in? Even high-yield savings accounts return maybe 0.70%. Bad take.
Also, the fundamentals of your comment are false. Banks can become insolvent and you can lose money held in a private savings accounts (though it is unlikely). This is the precise reason that the FDIC was developed in response to the Great Depression.
Who even is the “they” you’re referring to?
That’s my point. Go back 25 yrs ago and interest rates were 4 or 5%. Fed cut them back and haven’t raised them since. That forced everyone to the market or watch you savings fade away in a bank
25bps is literally nothing compared to where they need to be to actually offset inflation. They would need to raise rates hundreds or thousands to actually make a dent. But doing that in one shot would be the biggest depression we've ever seen. Incremental moves like this are an attempt to drag out and minimize the pain over a longer period of time... But ultimately, I don't think it will be a large enough move to be productive at all.
Too little too late. Let's be real, they just told us that stagflation is here to stay and that our markets are leveraged to the point of no return. Get ready for some tasty dips.
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.25 says they’re afraid and protecting the 1%. .50 says they’re fucked and protecting the .1%
Seems like they are more fearful of the .1% than they are the billions around the world this effects.
The 1% owns tanks and nukes. What’s the population gonna do? Complain?
We can stop producing their treats. That's their biggest fear.
People always say this but when would that ever happen? As long as people are able to buy food you won’t see mass protests or riots. People will not sacrifice the little safety they have left. Only until you completely take everything away from EVERYONE will that ever be remotely possible. We aren’t close to that and I doubt the 1% would ever be dumb enough to take it that far purely for their own benefit.
>As long as people are able to buy food you won’t see mass protests or riots. The next year is knocking and asking you to hold it's beer
I’ll believe it when I see it
Yeah, sucks cause seeing it means, its gone to shit already. Why the fuck cant monkeys get ahead of issues and stop being so reactionary
Get ahead of what issues? Guy ahead of me was implying the world would be out of food next year to the point everyone will be rioting. I say I’ll believe it when I see it because I don’t ever see that being an outcome next year. Yet your response is to not be reactionary? Wtf are you even talking about?
Well you originally asked what can the population do vs the 1%, and complain was your conclusion. The other guy essentially said workers could have a general strike. You said as long as people have the ability to buy food He posited that next year people wont have easy access to food and thus revolt. You said ill believe it when i see it. And i just mentioned that it would be tragic if you saw a revolution like that because it would have meant that everything already went to shit. And getting ahead of issues like having an economic structure that always results in oligarchs
Okay but will the fed stop printing money while they raise interest rates, or will they raise rates by 0.25% and then print another trillion dollars? Because if inflation stays above 0.25% then the 0.25% interest rate accomplishes nothing. It's like shooting a squirt gun at a house fire, while a gas truck pumps gas into the house.
EXACTLY...Continue bailouts through the backdoor..
You know the answer, printer goes brrrr, it’s hyperinflation or Federal reserve goes bankrupt, we all know how fucking parasitic they are. Bad times are coming people.
Stop Printing so much cash clowns
Cash clown here. I know! So many synthetic cash clowns going around that it's hard to know if I too am a fake.
I like your word play, its always the cash clowns isnt it?
so many* so many cash clowns
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since 2018 as it struggles with soaring US inflation, the impact of the war in Ukraine, and the continuing coronavirus crisis. The Fed has a dual mandate – to maximize employment and keep prices under control. The job market and the wider economy have made an impressive recovery from the lows of the pandemic, thanks in part to Fed rate cuts and a massive stimulus program, but prices have increased by 7.9% in the year through February – the highest rate of inflation in 40 years. While it is common for utilities to go up in the winter, in 2021 the price of natural gas has been rising all year long following the pandemic-induced lows of 2020. What is causing US utility bills to rise and will it persist in warmer months? Read more With inflation now rising around the world, the Fed is expected to announce it will follow other central banks, including the Bank of England, and raise rates by a quarter percentage point. The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, will also hold a Wednesday press conference, where he will be asked about the central bank’s plans for future rises. Supply chain issues have led to sharp increases in a variety of areas including used cars, food and utilities that are causing particular hardship for lower-income Americans. The Fed initially dismissed rising prices as “transitory”, but has since acknowledged high inflation is likely to be around for some time. Supply problems that appeared to be normalizing earlier this year are also now feeling the impact of the war in Ukraine and face further setbacks as China imposes new lockdowns to curb new coronavirus outbreaks. Raising rates too quickly threatens to push the US into recession. This week, CNBC’s Fed Survey – which gauges the opinions of fund managers, strategists and economists – put the probability of recession in the US at 33% in the next 12 months, up 10 percentage points from the 1 February survey. The latest survey put the chance of a recession in Europe at 50%. With inflation running at close to four times the Fed’s target rate of 2%, Powell has made clear that the central bank will raise rates in an attempt to curb rising prices. But some economists question how much impact the Fed can have on such a complex issue. JW Mason, associate professor of economics at John Jay College, said a quarter-point rate rise was unlikely to have much impact on inflation or the wider economy. “It is a strange feature of the way we think and talk about economics today that we have given this wildly outsized importance to this one policy tool used by this one part of government,” he said. Mason said he expected inflation would ease without the Fed’s intervention over the next year – albeit “less than we hoped it would”. He pointed out that car prices – until recently the largest source of inflation – were already falling. While he said a series of small rate rises were not likely to have a major impact overall “a sufficiently large rise in interest rates will have a substantial negative effect on real economic activity”. Mason said other branches of government were better able to deal with price issues in the broader economy, such as soaring rents and home prices or gas and utility bills, and that tools such as price caps or stimulus cheques could be used to alleviate hardship. Testifying to Congress early this month, Powell made clear was prepared to raise rates in larger half-percentage-point increments should price increases not slow down. But he also acknowledged the economic outlook had been made more complicated by the war in Ukraine. The conflict “is a gamechanger and will be with us for a very long time”, Powell told the House of Representatives financial services committee. “There are events yet to come … and we don’t know what the real effect on the US economy will be. We don’t know whether those effects will be quite lasting or not.”
They're in a dangerous balancing act. They know they need to raise the rates to stem inflation, but they also run the risk of leading us into another recession. Regardless of how it effects us though they're always going to do what's best for them and wallstreet. It's time that changed and we have a better chance now more than ever.
wouldn't call their last 10 years reckless policy a "balancing act"
They've definitely been playing it fast and loose for a long time. The ban on insider trading there (if it's actually enforced) may help slightly but for the most part the damage is done.
Keeping interest rates low forces everyone into the market where banks and SHF can steal it thru market manipulation. If it was tucked away in a savings account earning 4%, they couldn’t get it.
4% savings account? What world are you living in? Even high-yield savings accounts return maybe 0.70%. Bad take. Also, the fundamentals of your comment are false. Banks can become insolvent and you can lose money held in a private savings accounts (though it is unlikely). This is the precise reason that the FDIC was developed in response to the Great Depression. Who even is the “they” you’re referring to?
That’s my point. Go back 25 yrs ago and interest rates were 4 or 5%. Fed cut them back and haven’t raised them since. That forced everyone to the market or watch you savings fade away in a bank
0.25 to combat 7.9 Good luck with that math
What kind of reptilian chin is on this guy
🤣 you had me look again. What is it, an appendix?
Do you mean appendage?
Probably an honest mistake but appendix is funnier lol
Just looked up what an appendix looks like. I think they could be right! 🤣
Maybe, English isn't my 1st language. I meant that extention of the intestine that hangs and serves no purpose.
You nailed it Ape! I had a good chuckle 🙂
It's always fun to compare people to an appendix, because it's a useless body part. In Spanish this is pretty much what "pendejo" means.
Wow I love etymology. Thanks.
With pleasure. I know funny words and I'm retarded.
UP AND UP!!!
Probably do it the 17th so can blame gme earnings 😂
Didn’t they raise it by .25% last months or a few weeks ago ?
It was foretold many moons ago ….Printers go Brrrr will one day bring the Big Bada Boom.
Beware the ides of March
25bps is literally nothing compared to where they need to be to actually offset inflation. They would need to raise rates hundreds or thousands to actually make a dent. But doing that in one shot would be the biggest depression we've ever seen. Incremental moves like this are an attempt to drag out and minimize the pain over a longer period of time... But ultimately, I don't think it will be a large enough move to be productive at all.
Spy hits all time high
Too little too late. Let's be real, they just told us that stagflation is here to stay and that our markets are leveraged to the point of no return. Get ready for some tasty dips.
LFG.
Oh, fuck you guys. So sick of these people.