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Jerome Powell Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by adoo, Jul 11, 2024.

  1. adoo

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    We’re witnessing a soft landing piloted by Jerome Powell’s fine-tuning of the $ supply in circulation.

    Chronology of the soft landing as I see it:


    inflationary seeds planted
    • The ill-conceived trade war started by the now convicted felon, in 2019, leading to bottlenecks to the global supply chains, which increase the cost of goods
    • Russia invasion of Ukraine, which led to increased cost for wheat / cereal, in 2022, as well as gasoline

    Germination of the inflationary seeds
    • Inflation had risen to just below 9% in late 2022

    Fine-tuning of the $ supply in circulation to counter the inflationary pressure
    • Fed raised the discount rate 11 times over the past 19 months, plus months of pausing
      • Steading decline in the rate of increase in CPI
        • steepest decline in inflation, in an 19-month period, ever
          • the decline from almost 9% to the current 2.97%
      • Jun 2024 was the first month, since early 2020, in which the rate of change was negative

    Amidst this inflationary fight, GDP continues to grow every quarter and unemployment still hovering around the low 4%, nearing historic low; thus, the soft landing.


    Kudos to Chair Powell and his monetarist colleagues!

    A job well done, albeit the false narratives being spinned, such as
    • The Fed is wrecking its balance sheet
    • The Fed is exploding alternative investments,
    • etc
     
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  3. adoo

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    goin out on a limp, Powell will be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economics, regardless of the outcome of the 2024 presidential election
     
  4. adoo

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    understandable, there is an inverse relationship between the effectiveness of Fed policies and the price of bitcoins
     
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    that's incredibly ableist of you :cool:
     
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    the last time a Fed chair was awarded the Nobel prize in economic was Ben Bernanke in 2022; helicopter ben showed the world how to helicopter-rescue a cratering economy via QE,
    which provided the liquidity needed to counter the shrinkage of the economic pie.

    on the other end of the economic spectrum, using QT measures, Powell piloted the soft-landing of an inflationary economy
     
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    with Powell as the central banker, the defacto global fiat currency prevails over economic crises including
    • the ill-conceived trade war
    • global supply chain bottleneck and
    • russian invasion of ukraine which has
      • further interrupted global supply chain
      • reduced reduced output of critical commodities like food and energy.

    [​IMG]

     
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    Over the past 21 months, the Fed has fine-tuned the US economy with 9 consecutive rate hikes, followed by 12 rate pauses. On a 12-month basis, in July 2024,
    the Consumer Price Index (CPI) cooled to 2.9%, down from 3% in June — the first time the index dipped beneath 3% since March 2021.
    • the GDP has continued to grow every quarter, at a rate faster than the previous WH
    • employment gains every month---avging > 100K---since Biden has taken office
      • unemployment has declined from 6.3% (when Trump was fired) to the current 4.3%
        • altho unemployment rate has increased each of the last 3 months

    what we have here is a soft landing, piloted by Fed Chair Jerome Powell

    This morning, in a keenly awaited speech at the meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he said that “time has come for policy to adjust”.
    “The direction of travel is clear, and the timing and pace of rate cuts will depend on incoming data, the evolving outlook and the balance of risks.”

    Powell will be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economics
     
    #10 adoo, Aug 23, 2024
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    lol didn't Powell already declare victory 8 months ago?

    I haven't seen this much premature dry humping since @astros123 claiming Biden would destroy Trump in a debate at any date and any time.
     
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    Explains the misplaced and clumsy aggression.
     
  13. adoo

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    i wish that you'd stop lying !
     
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    What a dipshit loser you are. I never said Biden would destroy trump at any point. You're a low life moron
     
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    Well I'll be ****ing damn, you owe some members here bread... @Astrodome else you're no better than that ****-sucker @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul
     
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    Such are the vicissitudes of being the Fed Chair




    • Pandemic / shutdowns happened
    • trump's ill-conceived trade war / inability to pass the infrastructure bill leading to a loss of ~2 million jobs during his 4 years in office
    • [​IMG] to drive up demand for economic activities, artificially inducing inflationary pressure
    • but the inflationary pressure was exacerbated by Russia Invasion of Ukraine, driving up the cost of commodities/farm products/oil
    • Inflation rate reached a 40-yr high
    • [​IMG]
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    • Economic illiterates parroting the false narrative of "the Fed is wrecking its balance sheet, ROFLMAO
    • [​IMG]'
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    Powell has done a fantastic job, I can only hope king musk doesn't go in and fire him and let his sidekick trump do any damage by lowering interest rates before were ready for that. I have a feeling with everything king musk is doing with help from his sidekick trump, interest rates will actually creep up and trigger a recession.
     
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    @adoo is a fly on a horses tail who thinks he is controlling the horse
     
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