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Treasury Secretary Yellen Says Rates May Have to Rise Somewhat to Keep the Economy From Overheating
CNBC ^ | 5/4/21 | Jeff Cox

Posted on 05/04/2021 12:25:06 PM PDT by hardspunned

Treasury Secretary Yellen conceded that interest rates may have to rise to keep a lid on burgeoning economic growth brought on in part by trillions in stimulus spending.

(Excerpt) Read more at apple.news ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bideneconomy; economy; fed; inflation; stagflation; yellen
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Food, energy and housing prices in my neighborhood are through the roof. Eventually reality will even sink in in Uniparty DC. I’m sure Biden’s got a plan. WIN buttons 2.0 maybe?
1 posted on 05/04/2021 12:25:06 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned
That's a blast from the past.


2 posted on 05/04/2021 12:27:48 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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Treasury Secretary Yellen Says Rates May Have to Rise Somewhat to Keep the Economy From Overheating

It's the government spending part of the economy that is too hot. Cut government spending.

3 posted on 05/04/2021 12:27:56 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: hardspunned

“somewhat” = “Ohmygawd, what are we going to do?”
Followed by “What will we do with all these severed liberal heads?”


4 posted on 05/04/2021 12:28:09 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: hardspunned

Yeah, brilliant. If you want to call out of control inflation “economic growth” go for it. Technically it sort of might kinda maybe be. If you want to increase debt service costs though, that isn’t going to help control inflation. It’s only going to drive it higher.


6 posted on 05/04/2021 12:29:14 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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The Gov need to stop throwing cash on the ground for everybody to pick up without any conditions. A lot of people should go back to work instead of waiting for the government to stop paying them the freebies


7 posted on 05/04/2021 12:29:29 PM PDT by ncfool (Joe Biden USSA.. United Socialist state of aMeriKa...... 11.3.2020 - President in waiting Kama-la-la)
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So economic growth is overheating? Then the GNP we had before the “Covid lock down economic sabotage” must have been way too hot to handle! We literally would have spontaneously combusted if the Democrats had not saved us, by killing that dangerous “overheated” economy. Which they did as a public service, you see.

Lucky for them, this had the salient effect of giving them total control over everyone and everything, with fraud, fear, and thereby it making possible for them to steal the election. Documented in that notorious “Time” article, that has already disappeared down the memory hole.

But that is not what Janet Yellen is going to tell us.


8 posted on 05/04/2021 12:41:05 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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Inflation is already well established in commodities. It’s raging.

That will take another couple of months to present at the retail level.

And when it does, Katie bar the door.

It will be a wild ride.


9 posted on 05/04/2021 12:41:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Dumb witch... There is too much money going after too few financial vehicles and the 70,000,000 people that own 60% of the s-—t in the world aren’t buying any more solid gold plumbing fixtures for their 8th mansion. What they are buying is equities... and DEBT.

Last week, Dallas ISD issued $180MM of debt at a true interest cost of .0067%. 20 year Term Bonds priced to yield a whopping 1.3%. These are not variable coupon bonds — fixed rate two payments a year, PAR returned at maturity. People that are getting paid a lot of money to manage the money of the 1%’ers aren’t acting like they expect inflation...

The Fed can do whatever they want with discount and overnight rates. The market isn’t doing diddly about rates anytime soon, so they aren’t moving much for a while.


10 posted on 05/04/2021 12:48:14 PM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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Just remember that GDP now includes government spending. My Grandkids debt is really heating up!


11 posted on 05/04/2021 12:49:51 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: hardspunned

Trump is going to have another huge mess to clean up. These people are evil morons.


12 posted on 05/04/2021 12:53:32 PM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: hardspunned

Is her brain stuck in the 70s?


13 posted on 05/04/2021 12:53:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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“I’m sure Biden’s got a plan”

Wage and price controls? Worked well for Nixon./s


14 posted on 05/04/2021 12:58:10 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: FreeReign

It’s all too hot.

Not all that free money you see falling from the sky is the government.

Most of it is freshly created by the Fed.


15 posted on 05/04/2021 1:00:14 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Fledermaus

I was around for the 70s.

This is gonna make that look good.


16 posted on 05/04/2021 1:03:08 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Not all that free money you see falling from the sky is the government.

Keeping the interest rates low in and of itself doesn't create money.

17 posted on 05/04/2021 1:11:08 PM PDT by FreeReign
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The markets are overheating, the economy not so much.


18 posted on 05/04/2021 1:24:36 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: hardspunned

BOHICA!


19 posted on 05/04/2021 1:27:40 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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The economy isn’t hot.

There’s imports waiting offshore,

No truckers working,

Back orders being filled,

There’s demand because surplus product cannot get to market without labor.

The economy isn’t hot...in fact it is recessionary.


20 posted on 05/04/2021 1:31:07 PM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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