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Powell: ‘The US is on an unsustainable fiscal path’
The Hill ^ | 02/04/2024 | TAYLOR GIORNO

Posted on 02/04/2024 4:42:16 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Leaning Right

Modification: “Just give me LOTS MORE for my pet projects. Those business execs need the money to recycle back to me.”


21 posted on 02/04/2024 5:13:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

““The U.S. federal government’s on an unsustainable fiscal path..”

Now he tells us.

I’ve been saying that for 25 years.

L


22 posted on 02/04/2024 5:17:08 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Don’t overthink it. ;)

They’re just getting ready to break the eggs…


23 posted on 02/04/2024 5:21:29 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am surprised Powell was not asked what revenue increases would be required to fix the fiscal problem. But now that he is on the record announcing the problem, the political left will be sure to follow up to announce the solution.

If they start talking about tax increases in an election cycle it tells you how confident they are about November. If they ignore or bury Powell’s statement, that says something too.


24 posted on 02/04/2024 5:22:14 PM PST by plymaniac
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To: redgolum

“Massive benefits cuts:

That usually means S.S. is cut first on the elderly.


25 posted on 02/04/2024 5:28:19 PM PST by WVNan (Only Trump. Never any other president. never ever again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow - you think?


26 posted on 02/04/2024 5:47:48 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: JonPreston

Once financial failure is seen as inevitable, everyone tries to cash in before the collapse.

It’s like a corrupt management looting a failing bank.


27 posted on 02/04/2024 5:54:11 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You cannot unspend the $10T you printed or borrowed and spent. It’s gone, but the debt remains.


28 posted on 02/04/2024 7:21:19 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

world war to follow.


29 posted on 02/04/2024 7:51:48 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think we could all have made that call. 🙄


30 posted on 02/04/2024 8:29:48 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Third Person

Try deflating the market figures for the last few years and see if it still looks like skyrocketing....


31 posted on 02/04/2024 8:35:11 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Bingo! Years of so called “Quantitative Easing” by digital printing of money that went to Wall Street and banks to fake pump the market with FAKE as hell “money”. Powell is outing his own stupidity, and before him.. Janet Yellen (and look where she is now, clueless and crafty evil as ever).

Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker and a string of other useless “heads” of a PRIVATE bank that Congress borrows money from to re-distribute to their constituencies— and then TAX the hell out of everyone to make up the money- only they don’t make it up. Now 34 trillion in debt and way over 240 trillion in UNFUNDED mandates of “law” decided by corrupt career legislators in unholy alliance with “Daddy’s” credit card— the Federal Reserve Bank. Naw- none of these had anything to do with it— right?


32 posted on 02/04/2024 8:57:30 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Paladin2
No the Federal Reserve and Powell only has control over monetary policy and no control over Fiscal policy, only Congress and the President does. Biden is by passing Congress to goose spending which in short term gives a boost to economy and his relection.
33 posted on 02/04/2024 9:44:24 PM PST by TECTopcat
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

[Too late. Catastrophe is baked in.]

That is absolutely correct. This WILL NOT be avoided.

It is impossible.

Which is probably why they want World War III. They need a bigger disaster for the masses to focus their attention on.

This is almost like Bruce Ismay declaring the Titanic hit the iceberg out of “recklessness”. Trying to get ahead of the looming disaster that cannot be avoided though they were certainly part of making it happen.


34 posted on 02/04/2024 10:12:36 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: redgolum

Massive benefits cuts, tax increases, and default.
Pick 2. You might get all three.

***************

Only two of the three will happen over the next few years.

Benefit cuts & defaults.

Taxes go down during a deflationary descent.(Which is just beginning)


35 posted on 02/05/2024 1:51:58 AM PST by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: unclebankster

Aren’t you overlooking currency debasement? The most likely scenario imo. It’s been ongoing for years.


36 posted on 02/05/2024 2:21:48 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Justa

Aren’t you overlooking currency debasement? The most likely scenario imo. It’s been ongoing for years.

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Currency debasement is a made up word for people who don’t understand currency.

Debased currency
Enhanced currency

Unclebankster- “Its the same damn thing”............currency.


37 posted on 02/05/2024 4:57:48 AM PST by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: unclebankster

“Currency debasement is a made up word for people who don’t understand currency”

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/debasement.asp

“Today, debasement can happen if a government prints more money, increasing the money supply without a corresponding increase in output.”

“Today, most currencies are fiat currencies and are not based on a precious metal. So, debasement only requires that the government print more money, or since much money exists only in digital accounts, create more electronically.”


38 posted on 02/05/2024 5:14:52 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There must be a reason he is.


39 posted on 02/05/2024 5:28:57 AM PST by xoxox
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To: Justa

Fiat currency
Debased currency
Enhanced currency = currency.

Ford currency
GM currency
Weyerhaeuser currency
IP currency
KEY currency= they all can become a currency.

You can call it anything you want.

What’s the value/valuation/price?


40 posted on 02/05/2024 5:30:18 AM PST by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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