| ▲ | miltonlost 7 hours ago | |
Yeeep, inflation right now is not a monetary phenomenon. There's also general corporate greed and ever-increasing monopolization, helped out by Trump's lax regulatory hand Interest rates rising aren't going to fix these sources of inflation. | ||
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> inflation right now is not a monetary phenomenon It usually isn't. That doesn't change that raising rates should slow down credit creation a bit. That reduces demand in a supply-constrained economy. It also reduces risk appetites, which helps in a perilous world. (Finally, it gives rate-cutting headroom for when someone levered blows up.) | ||