#It’s not time to hike rates

#It’s not time to hike rates

“#It’s not time to hike rates” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday the US central bank should begin reducing its asset purchases soon, but should not yet raise interest rates because employment is still too low and high inflation will likely abate next year as pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic fade. “I do think it’s…

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#Supply chain crisis is hurting Facebook, Google and Snapchat

#Supply chain crisis is hurting Facebook, Google and Snapchat

“#Supply chain crisis is hurting Facebook, Google and Snapchat” The escalating supply chain crisis isn’t just hurting manufacturers and retailers that sell goods off the shelf — it’s bleeding into the tech world.  Companies that sell everything from toys to clothes to cosmetics are having difficulty getting their products into the United States thanks to…

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#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema

#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema

“#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema” This headline: We say: That Washington Post headline Thursday paints Republicans as the bad guys in the supply-chain crisis, which has scores of ships — carrying 250,000 containers of merchandise — lined up waiting to be unloaded outside US ports, slowing deliveries and fueling inflation….

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#Welcome back to 70s-style stagflation misery thanks to Biden

#Welcome back to 70s-style stagflation misery thanks to Biden

“#Welcome back to 70s-style stagflation misery thanks to Biden” A feckless Team Biden has set America up for a new round of 1970s-style stagflation. The similarities between then and now are eerie. Seventies stagflation resulted from profligate fiscal policy, politicized monetary policy and food and energy shocks. President Lyndon Johnson’s guns-and-butter decision to simultaneously finance…

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