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rgmerk ◴[] No.44462229[source]
It seems that no one is prepared to point out the obvious - devaluation of the dollar is a cut in American living standards.
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spencerflem ◴[] No.44462298[source]
Totally agreed. My only hope is that the evil bastards who willed this to happen bear the suffering more.
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corimaith ◴[] No.44462722[source]
Those evil bastards are also most central bankers around the world that agree that the incredibly unbalanced balance of trade today needs to be rebalanced. America is consuming too much, and the world is saving too much. So yes, your living standards do need to go down for the sake of the greater global macroeconomic stability.

Contrary to what xkcd or NYT might tell you, actual economic institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are coigzant of the issues caused by the status quo and largely view the Trumpian diagnosis, if not the horrid execution, as correct.

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StopDisinfo910 ◴[] No.44463623[source]
> Those evil bastards are also most central bankers around the world that agree that the incredibly unbalanced balance of trade today needs to be rebalanced.

No central bankers in the world ever said that including Powell. That’s Trump policy and Trump only.

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corimaith ◴[] No.44464232[source]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/g-7-draft...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2005/20050...

They have actually, the debate about persistent imbalances have been going on since the 2000s and Bessnet's arguments are simply the extension of Bernanke's prior hypotheses and ultimately Keynes diagnosis on global macroeconomics stability.

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