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Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:29:45 PM EST
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Of course when I'm looking to buy a new place. Assholes
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If you haven’t pulled the trigger yet I would back away from the table.

My house is up over 100k in 15 months, shit is gonna pop.

I’ll be pulling my new fortune off the table come March/April.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:31:15 PM EST
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Of course when I'm looking to buy a new place. Assholes
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Higher rates should help you, as real estate prices should come down.

I’d rather pay less for a place than have a low interest rate.  You can always refi when rates drop, you never get a chance to buy for lower.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:32:34 PM EST
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Make CDs Great Again.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:34:06 PM EST
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Higher rates should help you, as real estate prices should come down.

I’d rather pay less for a place than have a low interest rate.  You can always refi when rates drop, you never get a chance to buy for lower.
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Of course when I'm looking to buy a new place. Assholes
Higher rates should help you, as real estate prices should come down.

I’d rather pay less for a place than have a low interest rate.  You can always refi when rates drop, you never get a chance to buy for lower.
He could also ask the Fed to sell all their MBS
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:38:04 PM EST
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Has Obama stopped taking credit for the economy?

Don't worry, when it picks back up he will take credit again.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:38:24 PM EST
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This.

People with actual money are getting tired of being outbid by a herd of sheep living on their credit cards and 84 month auto loans.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:44:15 PM EST
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Obama had zero interest rate.
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For his entire term of office, until the 3rd Wednesday of December 2015.
But the effects weren't felt at all in 2016, as interest rates were still very low.
They've raised rates repeatedly in the last 3 years.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 4:53:46 PM EST
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Really?  S&P PE ratio today would support an interest rate of 5.2 percent.  
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Everyone bitching about the rate hike is no different than any other welfare recipient.

The Fed and .gov manipulated the shit out of the markets to save your stupid asses..... FOR OVER A FUCKING DECADE....., and now when they are trying to reel in some of that government cheese, you're up in arms about "Muh investments!".

How fucking stupid do you have to be to think any of this market is real?

P/E ratios are fucked. Corporate debt is fucked. Pensions fucked. Hedge funds closing left and right. .........

Market has been on life support for 10 goddamn years, GDP a function of increasing debt for the last 40 years.. and if this comes as a suprise to any of you..... God help ya.
Really?  S&P PE ratio today would support an interest rate of 5.2 percent.  
Yeah, ok...

Nothing else would.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 5:15:33 PM EST
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Those fuckers are just getting started, the destruction is on its way.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 5:30:46 PM EST
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says the nevertrumper

and still not sorry your gal lost
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LOL Powell is Trump's guy.

For the last 5 years of BHO's presidency, GD screamed about how the Fed needed to stop printing money and needed to start slowly raising interest rates.

Now that they have started doing just that, it's some grand conspiracy manufactured to take down Trump.  
says the nevertrumper

and still not sorry your gal lost
Not surprised that you were obviously one of these people.

So please explain why we should have the interest rate pegged at 0 in perpetuity?

Maybe we should crank up some more of that QE while we are at it too, eh?

Let me guess....you also think "they" are going to tank the stock market just so your orange deity doesn't get reelected?  
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:06:04 PM EST
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LOL Powell is Trump's guy.

For the last 5 years of BHO's presidency, GD screamed about how the Fed needed to stop printing money and needed to start slowly raising interest rates.

Now that they have started doing just that, it's some grand conspiracy manufactured to take down Trump.  
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Near the end of Obamas admin they rose rates at like a 1/4 point every 2-3 quarters.  Now, the short term is higher than the long term... which has always lead to a recession.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:12:15 PM EST
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Did they even hint at any kind of loosening bias in 2019?

The Don should audit the Fed & Ft Knox
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:13:30 PM EST
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Did they even hint at any kind of loosening bias in 2019?

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Two to three more hikes per evening news on my drive home
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:16:56 PM EST
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They have been kicking the can a lot longer then I thought they could. Next wave won’t be pretty.
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There was news on the radio this morning about "the coming recession". WTF?

If that happens, it will instantly be labeled as "the Trump Recession", and will be called that 87 millions times in the next two years.
They have been kicking the can a lot longer then I thought they could. Next wave won’t be pretty.
wonder what kind of diversionary crisis they have in store for us this time?
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:18:00 PM EST
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Two to three more hikes per evening news on my drive home
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Did they even hint at any kind of loosening bias in 2019?

The Don should audit the Fed & Ft Knox
Two to three more hikes per evening news on my drive home
uff duh

thats gonna hurt

I just read Powell said 2 rate hikes in 2019 instead of the earlier discussed 3.

My guess is if one looked at the individual Fed members campaign contributions last election the were overwhelmingly
Democrat...as they are historically.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:18:31 PM EST
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Yes, I read the language as they will evaluate the data and that there is no rigid set schedule for raising rates.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:19:11 PM EST
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doubletap
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:21:31 PM EST
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uff duh

thats gonna hurt
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Two to three more hikes per evening news on my drive home
uff duh

thats gonna hurt
Haven't heard that in a long time.

I thought is it MN or WI?
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:31:04 PM EST
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Until interest rates go up, we can't actually make any ATTEMPT an economic recovery from 2008.

One of the largest domestic buyers of US T bills are US pension funds, guess who is going to need a LOT of liquidity soon.

You might be bitching about an interest rate hike now, but if you want to avert a pension fund crisis this has to happen yesterday.

Interest rates at essentially 0 are not indicative of a healthy economy.

The housing market is insanely over valued all over the country right now.  A slow and steady rise in interest rates could help prevent another 2008 style crash.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:34:07 PM EST
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Until interest rates go up, we can't actually make any ATTEMPT an economic recovery from 2008.

One of the largest domestic buyers of US T bills are US pension funds, guess who is going to need a LOT of liquidity soon.

You might be bitching about an interest rate hike now, but if you want to avert a pension fund crisis this has to happen yesterday.

Interest rates at essentially 0 are not indicative of a healthy economy.

The house market is insanely over valued all over the country right now.  A slow and steady rise in interest rates could help prevent another 2008 style crash.
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I get the general, broad concepts. I also completely understand how unhealthy 0% interest rates are.

I bitched about those too.

I just don't like the Federal Reserve. Whatever they do. It's kinda a ridiculous concept.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:36:19 PM EST
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Raising rates will make servicing the debt that much more difficult as well.
But you can't run ZIRP forever.  This whole 'recovery' is just a giant bubble of debt, waiting to pop.
Sure there's some good economic news, some growth, but nothing like the recovery people think was 'real'.

I'm curious if we'll go into a decade of stagflation like Japan did.
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Everyone bitching about the rate hike is no different than any other welfare recipient.

The Fed and .gov manipulated the shit out of the markets to save your stupid asses..... FOR OVER A FUCKING DECADE....., and now when they are trying to reel in some of that government cheese, you're up in arms about "Muh investments!".

How fucking stupid do you have to be to think any of this market is real?

P/E ratios are fucked.  Corporate debt is fucked. Pensions fucked. Hedge funds closing left and right. .........

Market has been on life support for 10 goddamn years, GDP a function of increasing debt for the last 40 years.. and if this comes as a suprise to any of you..... God help ya.
Raising rates will make servicing the debt that much more difficult as well.
But you can't run ZIRP forever.  This whole 'recovery' is just a giant bubble of debt, waiting to pop.
Sure there's some good economic news, some growth, but nothing like the recovery people think was 'real'.

I'm curious if we'll go into a decade of stagflation like Japan did.
The bubble of debt precedes the recovery.

The debt addiction has been so long and so complete at this point, there is no recovery for the patient that wont kill the patient.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:38:01 PM EST
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Until interest rates go up, we can't actually make any ATTEMPT an economic recovery from 2008.

One of the largest domestic buyers of US T bills are US pension funds, guess who is going to need a LOT of liquidity soon.

You might be bitching about an interest rate hike now, but if you want to avert a pension fund crisis this has to happen yesterday.

Interest rates at essentially 0 are not indicative of a healthy economy.

The housing market is insanely over valued all over the country right now.  A slow and steady rise in interest rates could help prevent another 2008 style crash.
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Exactly!
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:38:43 PM EST
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Hopefully this will lead to a major correction in the real estate market. Prices are way overinflated in many areas.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:39:53 PM EST
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LOL Powell is Trump's guy.

For the last 5 years of BHO's presidency, GD screamed about how the Fed needed to stop printing money and needed to start slowly raising interest rates.

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After a grand conspiracy to hide the miserable results of leftist policy the Fed does a 180 and executes a grand conspiracy to stifle the foregone results of conservative policy.

If you look at labor participation rates it’s obvious as hell that their is little reason for the 180.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:44:24 PM EST
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Haven't heard that in a long time.

I thought is it MN or WI?
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Both anywhere there's a contingent of Norwegians
I hear it coming from upstairs on a regular basis...
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:46:21 PM EST
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Both anywhere there's a contingent of Norwegians
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Haven't heard that in a long time.

I thought is it MN or WI?
Both anywhere there's a contingent of Norwegians
Yuuup! Used to live in MN.

Plenty of Nordic bros up there.



Edit: I'll take your skating, hockey, kindness and ice fishing, but you guys can keep lutefisk.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:51:34 PM EST
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If a Dem president is elected next election what is the over/under that the rates drop immediately?

#SWAMPLIFE
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^^^^
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:53:04 PM EST
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Yuuup! Used to live in MN.

Plenty of Nordic bros up there.



Edit: I'll take your skating, hockey, kindness and ice fishing, but you guys can keep lutefisk.
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Haven't heard that in a long time.

I thought is it MN or WI?
Both anywhere there's a contingent of Norwegians
Yuuup! Used to live in MN.

Plenty of Nordic bros up there.



Edit: I'll take your skating, hockey, kindness and ice fishing, but you guys can keep lutefisk.
Back in the 70's I worked in a northern MN town where all the townsfolks spoke English with a Norwegian accent...
It was very strange but interesting...kinda like Twilight Zone interesting.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:53:14 PM EST
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Don't mistake the risk free rate of return as actually being risk free.  There is a tiny bit of credit risk, liquidity, and a lot of interest rate risk
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I'm REALLY starting to sound like a broken record here.  Once again.

If someone buys a 1-Yr treasury today, they make 2.72%.  Minus annualized inflation as of November of 2.2% = 0.52% real rate of interest.

And that's with the official inflation rate .
Sure, that's on a instrument with no risk.
Don't mistake the risk free rate of return as actually being risk free.  There is a tiny bit of credit risk, liquidity, and a lot of interest rate risk
Not a lot of interest rate risk in a one year bill.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:57:39 PM EST
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Should have gotten on top of that home buying thing.  Didn't really expect to stick it out at my current job/location this long though.  On the plus side, through a combination of raising rates and opening an account at an online bank, my savings interest has about quintupled.  It's nice seeing a non-trivial amount get deposited every month.

I feel like time to temporarily move from the L-fund to the G-fund in my TSP might be near.  ARFCOM finance/investing 'experts', when is fo time for that move to jump the trough?
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:57:44 PM EST
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So it was Greenspan's fault Pets.com disappeared?  I thought it was because their most valuable asset was a sock puppet, which justified millions upon millions of investment dollars despite a lack of profit.
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Be ready for the recession because its coming. Every time the economy is rolling along the Fed pops it.

They popped the dot com and they popped the housing bubble.

Sock your money away because its coming.
So it was Greenspan's fault Pets.com disappeared?  I thought it was because their most valuable asset was a sock puppet, which justified millions upon millions of investment dollars despite a lack of profit.
Dont blame me!
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 6:59:38 PM EST
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should i start buying stocks soon? or wait until 20% down from highs?

will house prices fall next year?
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S&P 500 P/E is about 19.1.  So for about $19.10 I can buy an asset that earns $1 a year.  Do a =($1/$19.10) and that ratio is about .052 or 5.2 percent.
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Yeah, ok...

Nothing else would.
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I think you are misunderstanding what I wrote.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:07:36 PM EST
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S&P 500 P/E is about 19.1.  So for about $19.10 I can buy an asset that earns $1 a year.  Do a =($1/$19.10) and that ratio is about .052 or 5.2 percent.  
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Could you explain/extrapolate on that?
S&P 500 P/E is about 19.1.  So for about $19.10 I can buy an asset that earns $1 a year.  Do a =($1/$19.10) and that ratio is about .052 or 5.2 percent.  
It's closer to 8-9%.  You have to include long-term earnings growth.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:07:39 PM EST
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Woohoo! My money market account loves it. Sold everything not too long ago. Currently don't own any stocks.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:24:12 PM EST
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Yes, the Fed didn't sell one QE asset during the Obama presidency.  So far this year, they have dumped 10 percent of the QE-acquired assets on the market.  
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Yes, the Fed didn't sell one QE asset during the Obama presidency.  So far this year, they have dumped 10 percent of the QE-acquired assets on the market.  
Dumping equities into a down market. That strategy sounds foolproof.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:26:14 PM EST
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yep,

can't have Trump be successful, so got to raise interest rates to kill the economy

edit - feds kept the interest rate at zero to an effective negative interest rate during obama's term, to protect him and hide the recession while bho was in office.

now, they got to raise it through the roof to kill Trump's successful one, where everyone is making money
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Yup pretty much. Everyone is against him and now he is working to push those who do/did support him away via gun control, no wall, and aid to shitholes south of the border.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:30:35 PM EST
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How much more will we be paying in interest on the debt now ?
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:32:26 PM EST
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Dumping equities into a down market. That strategy sounds foolproof.
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Yes, the Fed didn't sell one QE asset during the Obama presidency.  So far this year, they have dumped 10 percent of the QE-acquired assets on the market.  
Dumping equities into a down market. That strategy sounds foolproof.
I don't think it is equities.  I believe it was government bonds and MBS.

If they dump them, it should effectively raise rates.  Being fixed coupon.   And yeah, they might lose money.  But that may also have something to do with the timing - dump them before rates rise further, in order to realize more money from them.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:39:56 PM EST
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Dumping equities into a down market. That strategy sounds foolproof.
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I day traded for a short while, wasn't very good at it, but in this market I would look to do straddles.

A good trader can make money no matter what is going on.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:42:04 PM EST
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Stupid move.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:47:11 PM EST
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I really suspect this is some deep-state shit trying to mess with Trump's Economy; and I don't usually think stuff like that.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:50:16 PM EST
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While economies are cyclical this is definitely going to be engineered to tank the economy in such a way to hamper Trump's reelection.
Link Posted: 12/19/2018 7:51:48 PM EST
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dems finally get what they have been wishing for.
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Yeah, ok...

Nothing else would.
I think you are misunderstanding what I wrote.
Perhaps it was how you described your point?

Or you misunderstood mine?

Eta; Too many games being played

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/11/19/pe-ratios-are-misleading-especially-right-now/

 Because P/E ratios rely on flawed accounting earnings and ignore the cost of capital, they can steer investors towards value traps, stocks that look cheap but are actually very expensive when taking into account the comprehensive picture of a firm’s profitability.
Context of my original comment;

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Link Posted: 12/19/2018 8:28:13 PM EST
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I get the general, broad concepts. I also completely understand how unhealthy 0% interest rates are.

I bitched about those too.

I just don't like the Federal Reserve. Whatever they do. It's kinda a ridiculous concept.
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When, exactly, has the fed ever made GOOD decisions?
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Sure, that's on a instrument with no risk.
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I'm REALLY starting to sound like a broken record here.  Once again.

If someone buys a 1-Yr treasury today, they make 2.72%.  Minus annualized inflation as of November of 2.2% = 0.52% real rate of interest.

And that's with the official inflation rate .
Sure, that's on a instrument with no risk.
My pre 9/11 treasuries made 6%
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FIFY
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When, exactly, has the fed ever made GOOD decisions?
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I get the general, broad concepts. I also completely understand how unhealthy 0% interest rates are.

I bitched about those too.

I just don't like the Federal Reserve. Whatever they do. It's kinda a ridiculous concept.
When, exactly, has the fed ever made GOOD decisions?
Kinda my point, and they're bereft of Congressional oversight.

I don't like central banks.

What really bakes my noodle is whether we'd be better or worse off WITH government oversight.
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