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https://www.vox.com/23036340/biden-american-rescue-plan-inflation
I'm so happy you sent me that article. It proves that stimulating the economy with new money often times is bad... Just like what Trump did. I'm not a Biden fanboy but I genuinely believe that Trump's love for cheap money doomed us. Here's one of many articles showing that he did exactly what I described above. The fed was trying to deflate the economy now but we're basically pressured into not. Now they are finally doing what they wanted to do like 6 years ago.
I promise you, you cannot in good faith argue that there was not massive artificial economic stimulus in Trump's presidency and he had a massive role in that.
The Democrats were pushing for more money because of the pandemic. They wanted people to stay at home. Right or wrong, the Democrats pushed it and I can't say it was the wrong decision at the time. Would you have preferred Trump refused to send money to let people stay at home during the pandemic?
Biden came in and started spending like crazy. Look at the debt growth under Biden. It is astounding. That money didn't need to be spent. That was Biden just spending.
I feel like you're skating past all the points I've mentioned. Do you agree or not?
Yes, Dems were pushing for stimulus checks. I was personally against it on a macro level but I would like to believe it was crucial to some families. Ultimatly, that was a drop in the bucket compared to interest rates and QE.
Spending is a different animal. Government spending doesn't really equal inflation. Ultimately I don't care if you're spending it on "good" things. Republicans won't mind military spending and Dems won't mind whatever it is they care about. All that is very subjective and not really my wheelhouse since I don't look at yearly budgeting and I don't think most do.
But when we're talking about inflation what we're talking about is new money flowing into the economy. We aren't taking about a presidents spending plans.