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Old 08-09-2025, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief View Post
The Fed should be abolished and let the free market set rates on short term securities like it currently does on longer term ones. Government manipulation of the free market rarely works as intended.
The Fed works. When inflation is sky high, lowering interest rates has proven to be the best way to lower inflation. This is economics 101.