• HailSeitan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    He’s been doing a great job of steadily driving up the price of assets owned by the 1%, including stocks and housing, as well as bailing out Silicon Valley Bank when they gambled with tech bros’ money. He works for Wall Street, not the American people.

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      He did that? I’m sure he’s a contributing factor by virtue of being a significant person in the financial sector but besides pure misinformation and misdirection what is your actual point?

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      Go off king! Burn the Fed down! Let’s have a wild west monetary system! Mom and Pop don’t want predictability, they want to plan their futures knowing that anything they choose could be good or bad! Frenzied Flame ending, FTW!

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        Get serious. The FDIC protecting retail investors has nothing to do with Powell bailing out SVB. Nor does democratic control of the Fed (as we had during the New Deal) have anything to do with “burning the Fed down.” What silly false equivalences.

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          As someone whose employer used SVB at the time, that intervention to provide stability directly affected me. Sorry it’s not a black and white scenario.

          I didn’t track that you were advocating for a Democrat fed chair. I’m fine with that and would prefer it, though I do think The Fed is one of the last examples where partisanship is held mostly at bay. Wonks gonna wonk, as it should be. Yellen was the reason I started paying attention to The Fed in the first place.

          Lovely pun of a name, BTW. My vegetarian fam showed me how good seitan could be.

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              The sleepiness wore off and I realized I shouldn’t just knee-jerk in the morning. Haha

              I appreciate it, as well. We build the Lemmy we want with our actions!