• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 天前

    One of the things that had kept America’s economy stable and which invited foreign investment in the dollar had been the independent fed.

    The Fed isn’t independent. Volcker and Greenspan should have disabused us of this notion 50 years ago. The central bank exists to benefit Capital and grow domestic profit.

    What we have is a split within the bourgeois on what policy should be. Trump’s backers wants credit expansion at the expense of inflation after half a century of presidents demanding the opposite.

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      4 天前

      The central bank exists to benefit Capital and grow domestic profit.

      That’s not a contradiction to them being independent.

      What we have is a split within the bourgeois on what policy should be.

      Aw man, not the bourgeois!

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 天前

        That’s not a contradiction to them being independent.

        If they’re beholden to private banking interests, they’re explicitly not independent.

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          4 天前

          Independent of the U.S. Government is the qualification here.

          No one’s suggesting they’re independent of giant banks, GRU kompromat, or gravity.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      4 天前

      The Fed isn’t independent. … The central bank exists to benefit Capital and grow domestic profit.

      Huh. .world and not .ml?

      “Independent” doesn’t mean “caters to the lemmy commies”.