Higher rates have been leading to more inflation for several years now, IMO. Much of our inflation is being driven by a shortage of supply (e.g. housing, computing resources, healthcare) not an excess of demand. Higher rates inhibit supply, which further increases shortages, and thus adds to inflation.
The presumption that the Fed raising short-term rates reduces inflation is predicated on the belief that higher rates reduce demand and investment.
But what if higher rates don’t reduce demand and investment because the demand for intelligence and energy is unaffected by higher rates because winning the race for super intelligence has a near infinite ROI and the demand for compute will remain incalculable.
Why won’t higher rates at this unique moment in history therefore lead to more inflation as interest costs are embedded in everything?
And the problem is compounded as the more the Fed raises rates, the more inflation we will have and the more the Fed will need to raise rates further and so on.
But what if the old models don’t apply to the current paradigm and the Fed is wrong?
I think the Fed might have just made a mistake. Am I right or am I wrong?
@SrhKad "but that’s just proof that capitalism absorbs social movement demands" - This would be characterised as power if you're unaware, and that would be the very point of consumeristic behaviour.
@justifruit@hasanthehun Imagine that not a week has passed and there's a possible treatment for cancer being discovered, wauw you look foolish now huh!
@pelledragsted Du har ret Pelle Nairoberen! Det er intet andet end en klassisk klam magt-kamp på højrefløjen! Og som du siger skal man selvfølgelig være søde og rare og ae de radikale fundamentalister MED hårene!