It was very unsettling to hear Powell say that they (the economists working for the Federal Reserve) all missed the Supply issue. (Econ 101) They (all supposed non-partisans) were focused only on the Demand half of the equation as they aligned with the Democrats’ spend program.
To those of you who are new to the comments section, here are a few observations of my own. There are several commenters, like Concretionist and RAGs, who feel it is their duty to post drivel on every conservative political cartoon (Varvel, Araial, Lisa Benson, Ramirez, etc.). They are accomplished projectionists, meaning that most of their attacks on President Trump and the Republicans actually apply to Biden and the Democrats. When they can’t attack the comic (because the comic is true), they will attack the commenter or the artist. Watch for yourself and see what I mean.
Read their comments for the laugh value. I suspect that most of these people spend their days in Mommy’s basement, in their underwear, with nothing productive to do. In most cases, I feel sorry for them.
Wrong label. It’s not the Fed making things worse for Americans with Unregulated Inflation — it’s the lazy, greedy Executive Class of Retailers, the Big Banks and Wall Street Speculators that are the cause of all Inflation, and always have been.
Not one of them needs to charge more for their products or services; they just want to because they don’t give a crap about the consumers whatsoever.
This current inflation is entirely due to a very specific greed-and-hubris-based decision on the part of retailers — ending the practice of Warehousing their products. With “Just in Time” delivering becoming a thing, most big retailers and suppliers stopped warehousing their products in case of delivery stoppages or delays.
They stopped warehousing, but still kept the warehousing cost as part of the price they charged for their products, simply pocketing that ill-gotten gain without telling anyone.
That, and Gas sellers deliberately gouging consumers (despite the price of Petroleum being rock-bottom) because they want to recoup the unnecessary excessive profits that they weren’t able to accumulate during the Lockdowns, because people weren’t using their vehicles anywhere near as much.
Gas Prices have always been a sick, perverse, private-market scam, at first pretending their prices were based on the cost of replacing the gas they had in gas station tanks, but soon giving up that lie and just basically charging whatever the hell they wanted for gas, knowing that the options to gasoline-powered transportations were few.
It’s little wonder they’ve spent billions and billions of dollars on blocking, sabotaging and slandering alternative fuel vehicles and preventing the building of a truly nation-wide Electric Vehicle Recharging Infrastructure in the nation, like many other nations have already done.
On another subject, and one Stantis got correct, has anyone noticed that the way this is drawn, when the Fed cuts the string on Mr. and Mrs. America, they BOTH will fall into the abyss?It’s coming to a New Year near you!
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Where does THIS calumny come from?
sevaar777 over 2 years ago
Looks like the cartoonist is suffering from hypoxia.
Kracklin Rosie - “Tolo Dan Nan Galad” Premium Member over 2 years ago
Biden and the Fed is cutting the economic throat of the USA.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
⇑⇑ Ms Bran ⇑⇑ sure has drunk the Orange kookaid.
1BlackLivesMatter Premium Member over 2 years ago
Great ‘toon! When will The Fed get serious about fighting Dementia Joe’s inflation? Let’s go, Brandon!
cdward over 2 years ago
Where was Stanton when the GQP gave all our money to the ultra rich? They are the “steal from the middle class and give to the rich” party.
Retrac Premium Member over 2 years ago
It was very unsettling to hear Powell say that they (the economists working for the Federal Reserve) all missed the Supply issue. (Econ 101) They (all supposed non-partisans) were focused only on the Demand half of the equation as they aligned with the Democrats’ spend program.
codak over 2 years ago
tax the rich, cut the military
preacherman over 2 years ago
So far, the FED’s scissors are made of paper and can’t cut anything.
msequor over 2 years ago
To those of you who are new to the comments section, here are a few observations of my own. There are several commenters, like Concretionist and RAGs, who feel it is their duty to post drivel on every conservative political cartoon (Varvel, Araial, Lisa Benson, Ramirez, etc.). They are accomplished projectionists, meaning that most of their attacks on President Trump and the Republicans actually apply to Biden and the Democrats. When they can’t attack the comic (because the comic is true), they will attack the commenter or the artist. Watch for yourself and see what I mean.
Read their comments for the laugh value. I suspect that most of these people spend their days in Mommy’s basement, in their underwear, with nothing productive to do. In most cases, I feel sorry for them.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
^Mr. right wing spam is getting to be a whiny right wing total bore.
Right wingers make very rude comments about left wing artists.
Eclectic Wanderer over 2 years ago
Wrong label. It’s not the Fed making things worse for Americans with Unregulated Inflation — it’s the lazy, greedy Executive Class of Retailers, the Big Banks and Wall Street Speculators that are the cause of all Inflation, and always have been.
Not one of them needs to charge more for their products or services; they just want to because they don’t give a crap about the consumers whatsoever.
This current inflation is entirely due to a very specific greed-and-hubris-based decision on the part of retailers — ending the practice of Warehousing their products. With “Just in Time” delivering becoming a thing, most big retailers and suppliers stopped warehousing their products in case of delivery stoppages or delays.
They stopped warehousing, but still kept the warehousing cost as part of the price they charged for their products, simply pocketing that ill-gotten gain without telling anyone.
That, and Gas sellers deliberately gouging consumers (despite the price of Petroleum being rock-bottom) because they want to recoup the unnecessary excessive profits that they weren’t able to accumulate during the Lockdowns, because people weren’t using their vehicles anywhere near as much.
Gas Prices have always been a sick, perverse, private-market scam, at first pretending their prices were based on the cost of replacing the gas they had in gas station tanks, but soon giving up that lie and just basically charging whatever the hell they wanted for gas, knowing that the options to gasoline-powered transportations were few.
It’s little wonder they’ve spent billions and billions of dollars on blocking, sabotaging and slandering alternative fuel vehicles and preventing the building of a truly nation-wide Electric Vehicle Recharging Infrastructure in the nation, like many other nations have already done.
Alfred Brown over 2 years ago
On another subject, and one Stantis got correct, has anyone noticed that the way this is drawn, when the Fed cuts the string on Mr. and Mrs. America, they BOTH will fall into the abyss?It’s coming to a New Year near you!
359mxn over 2 years ago
Not sure I get your drift. So when the rope is cut the Fed goes up and the country goes down?
Alfred Brown over 2 years ago
And now I must do work and EB can continue to pontificate on Cartoons. Good Day.