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It appears that one side is fantasizing about what they'd like the other side to say so they can attack on that. Of course, we're talking about a country of ove

• vkou 4y ago
  It's not a fantasy to observe that the right-wing of the American political spectrum spent most of 2020 and 2021 screaming about individual handouts and unemployment benefits, while only raising a token protest about PPP loans, and the firehose of money that the Fed started dumping into the capital markets, starting in March 2020. In reality, all of those steps were necessary to prevent economic disaster, but now that disaster has been averted, and wages started rising, everyone's clutching their pearls about inflation.
• jjoonathan 4y ago
  The "stimmies caused inflation" narrative doesn't just exist, it's widespread on the right. If you aren't hearing it, you probably have a small window. Reading Ground, for example. In any case, the team sports side of this is much less interesting than the part that transcends team sports: both sides devote more media attention to the smaller money printers. Not by a small margin, either. That's an interesting choice. Does submarine go blub? Or does making the big money printer boring and complicated completely cloak it from view? Either way, it's an impressive multi-trillion dollar sleight of hand.