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Comment by throwawaygh

> the Federal reserve also has no leverage to modify the prime interest rate to combat this inflation, as it already sits near-zero

...huh? If you want to lower inflation you'd typically raise interest rates...

(These sorts of stupid-simple mistakes are pretty typical from inflation fearmongers in threads like this one... a lot of words that make it sounds like they know what they're talking about but sprinkled with incredible tells like this one.)

parent throwawaygh 5 years ago

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