It’s a repeat of 2022. There’s a very short window to limit the second order impacts of fuel and gas prices on the broader economy.
Even in the most optimistic scenarios I’ve seen, inflation gets to >4% and holds around there in the second half of the year.
Edit: and these readings are coming alongside reductions in inflation contributions from tariffs, which according to the Fed, peaked in February 2026.
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This is by design.
There is no other way to manage the national debt. Prepare for the same repression cycle as post WW2 but worse because we can’t offload debt to the rest of the world as well, as the fed starts being the buyer of last resort.
Inflation will persist, and Powell will go down as the transitory joke that he is.
For the record, they doomed us when they started buying in 2008, and perhaps this was even allowed/possible because Nixon destroyed us even harder (here come the redditors to say “the gold standard was impossible!”). They should have allowed a monster recession, or depression. Now we are staring down the barrel of doom because they thought they were special and MMT and other nonsense.
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It’s a repeat of 2022. There’s a very short window to limit the second order impacts of fuel and gas prices on the broader economy.
Even in the most optimistic scenarios I’ve seen, inflation gets to >4% and holds around there in the second half of the year.
Edit: and these readings are coming alongside reductions in inflation contributions from tariffs, which according to the Fed, peaked in February 2026.
This is by design.
There is no other way to manage the national debt. Prepare for the same repression cycle as post WW2 but worse because we can’t offload debt to the rest of the world as well, as the fed starts being the buyer of last resort.
Inflation will persist, and Powell will go down as the transitory joke that he is.
For the record, they doomed us when they started buying in 2008, and perhaps this was even allowed/possible because Nixon destroyed us even harder (here come the redditors to say “the gold standard was impossible!”). They should have allowed a monster recession, or depression. Now we are staring down the barrel of doom because they thought they were special and MMT and other nonsense.