{"id":62169,"date":"2017-02-17T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62169"},"modified":"2017-02-16T20:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:46:27","slug":"the-fix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62169","title":{"rendered":"The Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump has only been President four weeks and already, inflation is out of control.\u00a0 Higher than it\u2019s been during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-wholesale-inflation-sees-biggest-monthly-gain-4-135914064.html\"><span class=\"s2\">the entire last term of President Obama\u2019s administration<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That . . . or the Obama administration faked the numbers and only now are the true numbers coming out.\u00a0 Nobody wants bad economic news; but I\u2019d rather have real bad news than fake good news. \u00a0But that\u2019s not the real meaning of this story, here&#8217;s the deeper meaning:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Federal Reserve during most of 2016 refrained from raising rates too quickly for fear of interrupting a fragile recovery but has taken a different view of the likely course of monetary policy in 2017, citing &#8220;uncertainty&#8221; as any expansionary fiscal policies from President Donald Trump have yet to take shape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words, the Deep State and Quasi-Government wonks are Liberals who held down rates when they thought it would benefit Democrats in the election, but now intend to torpedo Trump any way they can.\u00a0 One of the easiest is to \u201cdiscover\u201d rampant inflation so they can jack up interest rates to fight the rampant inflation they\u2019ve suddenly discovered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Higher interest rates will panic consumers, kill housing, stifle growth, and mushroom debt service on The Light Bringer&#8217;s 20-Trillion Debt.\u00a0 Shifting dollars to debt service will kill the possibility of a realistic budget and doom The Wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liberals and Never-Trumpers will then proclaim it\u2019s all Trump&#8217;s fault, except for the parts that are Bush\u2019s fault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">There&#8217;s a reason the Establishmet is, well, established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump has only been President four weeks and already, inflation is out of control.\u00a0 Higher than it\u2019s been during the entire last term of President Obama\u2019s administration.\u00a0 That . . . or the Obama administration faked the numbers and only now are the true numbers coming out.\u00a0 Nobody wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62170,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions\/62170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}