Jason Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 https://www.axios.com/trump-wants-herman-cain-federal-reserve-4b497361-d12a-4c5a-a2db-28ffe1d36b58.html update: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Cain should get 999 tattooed on his knuckles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 It's been a little crazy seeing conservative economists in the financial press railing against Powell's raising of interest rates after they spent years skewering Bernanke for keeping them low. I used to think their hard money, ZIRP-is-debasing-the-currency views (or rather rhetoric) during the Obama years, while maybe slightly exaggerated by political bias, still mostly stemmed from an authentic economic ideology that transcended their politics. But now it's becoming clear that, for a lot of them, it really is just all about naked political self-interest. Stimulus and soft money are perfectly fine provided they're helping conservative politicians, it seems. Oh, and yeah--this pick sucks. Moore and Cain are hacks. You don't want hacks running the most powerful financial institution in the world. Especially not ones appointed to be loyalists. (see Arthur Burns and the Nixon years for how that can go very wrong) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 And yet Cain is supposedly an inflation hawk who pitched fits that rates were too low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentWorld Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I can’t remember — is Herman Cain the “uzbekibekibekistan” guy or the “pyramids were giant granaries” guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, SilentWorld said: I can’t remember — is Herman Cain the “uzbekibekibekistan” guy or the “pyramids were giant granaries” guy? uzbekibekibekistan The pyramids guy already has a cabinet position. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, Jason said: uzbekibekibekistan The pyramids guy already has a cabinet position. My reaction when I realized how funny and horrifying it is that this is the world we now inhabit was something like this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 So. . . .is this the real Pizzagate we should all be worried about now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chairslinger Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Just now, Jason said: Trump already did. Asylum seekers: Can we come in? Trump: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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