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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 29, 2024

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Good. The US just a week or so ago started unwinding monetary policy that was necessary to avoid having the response to Covid destroy the US dollar. That’s nearly five years after the first case was discovered!

And it was all to try to save mom-and-pop businesses who all went out of business anyway just a few years later, under the weight of their nearly-free government loans.

Just get the fuckin flu, man.

What changed a week or so ago? Are you talking about the interest rate drop?