It's meaningless when the government is in so much debt that they can't even pay down the interest. Go ahead, print more money.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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How is this not blatant copyright crime? I don't understand how these guys keep getting away with using copyrighted images and music with zero consequences.
I don't like it either, but it's probably fair-use provisions.
Fair use does not cover political messaging.
They control the consequence-givers is how.
"A Classic Franklin Story: Franklin the Turtle Presses Charges For Copyright Infringement" when?
Amazing. Treasury returns tend to be inversely correlated to the overall economic conditions. So when the economy (and employment rate) is doing well, Fed hikes interest rates to prevent an overheating economy, so treasuries lose value. When the economy slows, the Fed lowers rates, treasuries do well.
The people running the Treasury social media account live in opposite land, or they know they're spreading propaganda.
The latter. Instruction from above: squeeze everything out of it you can, any way you can. Don't talk to me about facts and truthfulness.
Yeah, I thought high yield on bonds is bad for the government and means they had to increase rates to intice people to buy them. Meaning Trump is bad for the economy, according to the Treasury.
Wait is this an actual post by an actual gov agency?
Edit, also just noticed how last year was positive yet they still coloured it red lol
I think the coloured bars are intended to represent the party, not whether it's positive or not.
That'd make sense, though usually red means republican.
Bond purchasing is bound by (confidence in the government's ability to pay back * bond payout) / (confidence in the stock market * expected stock payout)
With that in mind, please notice that the latter Trump bar is much lower than the former and remember that while the economy sucked in 2019, we weren't all meming about the active stock bubble about to destroy the market. The expected value ratios haven't changed as well.
So finally Peter Schiff will end up being right
(He's been calling for the collapse of the US Treasury market since like 2002)
The people who make these type of pictures are going to Hell for the warcrime of making these images. They all can face the wrath of my autistic hatred for all I care!
Percent of what? I don't understand this graph.
I assume its bond rates, which actually inversely reflects economic confidence in the US. This is like a person celebrating that their credit cards interest rate went up because bigger numbers are better.
It mentions returns so I assume it's how much money you get from your investment.
These people are fucking retarded.
Hey, whatever happened to that being a slur? I'm seeing it more and more, what gives?
These people are fucking neurospicy.
Better?
The word is not used to describe mentally challenged people any more, so I don't see why it can't be used as a personal insult. It is usually used in the sense that the person being insulted should know better or is being willfully idiotic and doesn't care. Lots of commonly used insults used to be descriptive - idiot for one.
People stopped giving a fuck and/or the ratio of artists on lemmy is high enough that reclamation is going on. Regardless these people are infact retarded.
I would argue taking words out of reasonable vocabulary makes them more hurtful, and also just leads to more words that have negative connotations. Retarded is a word that has a definition. Calling someone a retard was common when I was in elementary school, but then we were told it was a slur, and we shouldn't use it. So the accepted words became handicapped, disabled, special, etc.
So guess what we called each other on the playground? Instead of one word, with a scientific meaning, there was now a slew of terms to hurl as insults, and they all meant the same thing. Any term that was trying to be more PC was going to be turned into a slur simply because nobody wants to be retarded.
Nobody wants to be handicapped. Nobody wants to be less-abled. Nobody wants to require special accomodations.
It doesn't matter what "friendly" word combination you use, it will always become a slur, because it's not good to be retarded. So by changing the accepted term every few years, we're just narrowing the vocabulary, and creating even more hurtful terms.
Outside of all of that, the other comment was using a slur as a slur, because fuck those particular retards. They didn't call them that to be friendly. They called them a hurtful term because they believe they deserve to be hurt. The purpose was the hurtful nature of the term.
Some people tried making It into a slur, but didn't catch on. It's just a regular insult, nothing to do with actually disabled people.