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If I were in charge of this mess?

I'd inflate the shit out of everything. It makes foreign goods more expensive, thus bringing American jobs back. It rewards savers because all of a sudden interest rates make you money. It likely pushes healthcare past the breaking point, so you basically push your pandemic medicaid plans forward and open it up to anyone. Wage pressures give you all the cover you could want to raise minimum wage and you can tie childcare, healthcare and other living incentives to inflation, which makes them centralized, which robs Republican governors of their power.

And I'd do all this because I know that the Democratic house races aren't really going to have to deal with inflation because they're not seen as having any power, and the four year runway I'm looking at means by the time I face any referendum on it, housing prices have been controlled by interest rates and wages are gonna be up.

Housing is deeply artificial at the moment. I think it's gonna crash like a ton of bricks, based simply on the fundamentals that are currently awash in PUA money. But we'll see.