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kleinbl00  ·  2443 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump warns Mueller against investigating his family's finances beyond Russia probe

We'll call it the E/A ratio - Eagle/Albatross, as to whether he's lifting you higher or hanging dead off your neck. All the political machinations in the world don't matter except for the E/A ratio: at some point, the Republican Congress may determine that their goals and needs are better served by scuttling this mutherfucker.

John Kenneth Galbraith made an exceptional observation in The Crash - The Fed knew things were bad, knew things could get worse, and did very little about it because they faced a choice. They could act to curb the market and have everyone know they were responsible for stopping the music, or they could sit on their hands and have everyone wonder if they could have done more to stop it.

So they sat on their hands.

Paul Volcker was pilloried for the better part of two decades for the inflation rates of the '70s. It's only as Japan's lost decade stretches into its third decade that we've started talking about him without spitting immediately after. How many Congresscritters cheered us into the Iraq War despite their misgivings? It's so much easier being wrong together than right alone.

Nothing is going to change short of a 2018 bloodbath.