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minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNot how fiat currency works.
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoOh yeah, because currency is just numbers on a computer right? Why bother with these pesky bonds and yield rates at all. Just fire anyone who says you can’t spend your way out of bad headlines.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoHaha, yes, unironically. https://jacobin.com/2026/09/bond-markets-securities-interest-treasury-fed
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoSpare me the tech-bro finance. Yes the fed does set yield rates but there are grave consequences to unreasonable manipulations - it’s the antithesis of the role of the central bank.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago“Tech-bro finance”?! Stephanie Kelton, a leading economist who teaches MMT, couldn’t be any further from tech bros. You just don’t understand money. 😄
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThat’s contrary to the consensus.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoDo you still believe in the loanable funds theory? And the tooth fairy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_relativity#A_Hundred_Authors_Against_Einstein
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoI believe in the consensus opinion of experts.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI’m sure that’s much easier than figuring out what’s true and what isn’t.
Not how fiat currency works.
Oh yeah, because currency is just numbers on a computer right? Why bother with these pesky bonds and yield rates at all. Just fire anyone who says you can’t spend your way out of bad headlines.
Haha, yes, unironically.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/bond-markets-securities-interest-treasury-fed
Spare me the tech-bro finance.
Yes the fed does set yield rates but there are grave consequences to unreasonable manipulations - it’s the antithesis of the role of the central bank.
“Tech-bro finance”?!
Stephanie Kelton, a leading economist who teaches MMT, couldn’t be any further from tech bros.
You just don’t understand money. 😄
That’s contrary to the consensus.
Do you still believe in the loanable funds theory? And the tooth fairy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_relativity#A_Hundred_Authors_Against_Einstein
I believe in the consensus opinion of experts.
I’m sure that’s much easier than figuring out what’s true and what isn’t.