Blurryeyed wrote:
Fed rates are going to keep going up as Biden and the Democrats won't stop spending, economists from both the Clinton and Obama administrations are attributing much of the inflation to Biden's spending. As the Fed is trying to tighten and slow economic activity Biden and the Dems just can't help themselves.... It's the first real test of the limits of MMT, and it is not going well.
Only the arty it of power gives a whit about spending--including Republicans. When Republicans are in power, they spend just as freely. That is why we have frown to rely on monetary policy for price stability as both parties have abandoned fiscal policy.
When Republicans are back n power, deficits will be OK (as Cheny famously said--"They don't matter"--and Democrats will be complaining about it.
Same as it ever was.