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You are wrong. Striking how many HN commentators are so often confident and yet wrong in their assumption that everything is about the US.
by rf15 2y ago
You are wrong. Striking how many HN commentators are so often confident and yet wrong in their assumption that everything is about the US.
- yamazakiwi 2y agoIt's easy to see why many commentators on a US company's forum would make said assumptions.
- benj111 2y agoTheres not much about the forums that makes it Y combinator specific. Unless youre talking more broadly, in which case this is the internet. Do Tik Tok videos have to assume everyone is Chinese?
- xadhominemx 2y ago“The Fed” is the US Federal Reserve The Finnish central bank is called the “Bank of Finland”
- benj111 2y agoYes and the parent was talking about an american companys forums, which I think is logically flawed.
- hansvm 2y ago> Central banks work this way >> Here's a biggish counter-example, setting fiscal policy for 25% of the world's economic output >>> Right! How could the other poster have possibly missed that? >>>> There are other central banks. Ignorant Americans...
- Supermancho 2y ago> You are wrong. Wrong about what? This is about the US Fed, in context of...well you can read the thread.
- mastazi 2y agoIn context of a thread about Finland? Anyway, it is true that interbank lending is a primary method of controlling interest rates and this is not limited to the US. The commenter who mentioned it above, probably was talking about the Fed specifically maybe just because that's what they are familiar with.
- yowlingcat 2y agoWhen it comes to the government treasury markets by volume (which back the global financial system), it objectively is.
- eru 2y agoBut that doesn't (directly) impact inflation in other countries.
- yowlingcat 2y agoYes it does.