The Great Financial Crisis was papered over by increasing the money supply and lowering interest rates. Then COVID made the music stop by making inflation real and noticeable.
#ZIRP
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
"Broadly, across economic sectors, AI isn’t visibly affecting the #jobmarket. But it’s a good layoff excuse.
So if that’s true, why are there all these #layoffs? It’s broader and long-running economic problems. You can start at the end of the zero interest rate policy [#ZIRP]."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
this is a truly wild statistic (and IMHO is the kind of predictable outcome of a decade of zero interest rate policy from the #Fed)
The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World
#HackerNews #StockMarket #ZIRP #FedIndependence #EconomicImpact #FinancialNews
“Higher for longer” is known as “return to normal” in the post-#ZIRP era, just look up #InterestRates in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻♂️
@randahl @shuro
#Lula is the right guy to stand against #Musk. He is the one who said (in 2009) that "#Brazil would choose #freesoftware because we like to make our own food — like #feijoada —with our own recipes and ingredients, and we would not follow #Microsoft bland recipes."
We were on the right public policy track then…
But #ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) for Silicon Valley was something we could not deal with.
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