Donald Trump

This election killed satire.

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NeroNoah wrote:

This election killed satire.

It's also missing a big juicy scandal. Worst reality show ever!

Trump 2016!
Killary for prison!

Hillary is dropping the ball so hard recently without Donald even having to lift a finger. It's actually kinda sad.

Hillary overheating harder than those steel beams 15 years ago Kappa

By the way, did someone pay attention to the comments Trump made about the Federal Reserve? That kind of stuff just triggers me. It's extremely ignorant and it can be very harmful to world's economy (so it's kinda personal this time).

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NeroNoah wrote:

By the way, did someone pay attention to the comments Trump made about the Federal Reserve? That kind of stuff just triggers me. It's extremely ignorant and it can be very harmful to world's economy (so it's kinda personal this time).

I do think interest rates are kept artificially low for political reasons, but more of the "unabashed corruption" kind and less of the "Obama" kind.

To quote the Washington Post:

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The Fed typically lowers interest rates to encourage businesses and consumers to borrow money and spend it, boosting growth. Raising rates makes saving more attractive and helps rein in an overheating economy.

Or in other words, low interest rates encourage the American idiot consumer culture of debt-and-spend, boosting the "economy" so the people who actually own things get to take their cut over and over again, and makes it difficult for the middle class to plan for retirement.

If you really think there aren't parties interested in influencing that kind of decision-making, you're hopelessly naive. The only protection Fed interest rates have from being a political consideration would be much-needed regulation designed specifically to combat corruption within the Federal Reserve. This is where decision-makers need a forced separation of trade and politics, because by God are the corrupt ever going to try to sink their claws in.

Now of course, Trump is being hilariously hypocritical in his criticism of low interest rates - he's on record approving of them in the past and it's doubtful he is any more resistant to corruption than a typical politician. But artificially low? Yes, of course they are.

All interest rates are artificial, made by people, as a benefit of loaning money to other people.


You wont see a national geographic documentary, set in some remote untouched jungle, of them recording for the first time the birth of a natural interest rate.

Don Jr. is an absolute madman. He lurked on /pol/ way too much lel.

Oh, Jr. is using the same rhetoric.