• dhork@lemmy.world
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      Wait, you mean to tell me that every time Rand Paul screams “Audit the Fed”, he’s talking bullshit? Who knew? ~we all did~

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    If they really start fucking around with the Fed, get ready for a fucking wild ride when it comes to the markets…and I realize it’s a favorite trope of many to say the markets are “not the real economy”, but they very much have an effect on everyone’s lives.

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    Among Bessent’s questions are “What is the Federal Reserve” and “how does it work”?

    He explicitly requested answers to be submitted in picture form.

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      If you look at his background it’s pretty clear he does, or at least should, know better. The guy has a definite pedigree in finance. Unlike a lot of other people in Taco’s admin, he seems to have qualifications.

      It’s just that he apparently has no limit to the depths which he’ll sink to support Taco. He probably thinks he is in any way different than everyone else Taco has tossed aside like a used Kleenex the minute it becomes inconvenient…

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    "If this were the [Federal Aviation Administration] and we were having this many mistakes, we would go back and look at why has this happened.”

    Riiiiiiigght

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    Orange goo would like to invite third party “The masters of definitely not fake gold” TMODNFG for short… They would be independently checking if any gold bar us fake. They will then return the bars and not fake aluminum bars. All gold will be transferred over and they will return the alum…gold as soon as it is fully confirmed.