re: Feds Raise Rates a Quarter Point

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You are correct. Unfortunately, burning it all down isn’t an option and living in a fantasy land where that exists isn’t a solution either

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His solution as a "conservative" is to vote DSA out of spite

Thats the gameplan. What an idiot

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You are correct. Unfortunately, burning it all down isn’t an option and living in a fantasy land where that exists isn’t a solution either

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Are we pretending it's not already burning?

I'm trying to put the fire out.

Getting Democrats elected is pouring nitroglycerin on the fire lol not baking soda

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If the republicans nominate conservatives I will vote for them

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Conservatives dont exist clown

So your solution is DSA. You are not a conservarive

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Are you under the impression that new bonds that treasury bonds aren’t issued weekly?

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No, but that's not what you mentioned. You mentioned "debt" as if the change in rates would change yields on existing debt.

To your point though, only around 1/4 of the debt is short-term, around 3/4 is the longer term debt. Longer-term securities aren't nearly as impacted by rate changes as short-term ones are (at least when the changes are small and expected, which this one was). Look up "when-issued yields" (WI) if you want more information on it.

Don't get me wrong, moving rates up is going to cause an increase to the debt, but that's not always the primary focus of the Fed as it also focuses on inflation (and that's driven by the amount of money in the economy, so higher rates are meant to pull that down).

The big-picture thing here is that our economy has been running on increasing debt spending by the federal government ever since the GFC. Let me state that again, not just "debt spending" but "increasing debt spending." COVID came along and any semblance of spending restraint was pretty much thrown out the window. We're now at a point where there's no way to avoid economic calamity without pain and the longer we try to delay it, the worse it's going to be.

Let rates remain or even lower them when inflation remains sticky? All that excess deficit spending is going to push inflation higher. Raise rates? The economy slows and we risk recession if the consumer debt bubble pops.

There's no middle ground in this, Powell's much-promised "soft landing" is a myth and math doesn't do "myth".

When do they learn inflation is tied to production. Raising rates will slow production and increase inflation

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Think through the fact that we import tons of things that greatly affect the COGS of damn near everytihg we produce domestically. (including petroleum).

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I know that increasing local supply takes a lot longer than decreasing demand, but if the Fed had lowered rates 2 years ago, we potentially could be in a better position and import less things. Just my uneducated thoughts.

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Conservatives dont exist clown

So your solution is DSA. You are not a conservarive

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I'm starting to come to the conclusion you are allergic to telling the truth.

You think the guy upholding traditional American values being optimistic about inflation and not expecting never before seen greedflation is a big gotcha which just shows how little you understand the current state of the world

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If the republican party represented conservatives and conservative values, they'd never lose.

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They lost so hard by doing just that that the party was destroyed and hijacked by an absolute moron who has done more damage to America than Bin Laden.