Real mystery 🙄

@LindaCollins11
If only there were historic examples of effective policy.

If only this had happened before and we wrote down how the problem was fixed.

If only some Great Depression had already been avoided, we could look and see how it was done.

Gosh, if only we had that and a President who wasn't bought and paid for, we'd have a decent chance of solving this problem.

If only...

@IvanTheBlue @[email protected] cial Nixon issued Executive Order 11615 (pursuant to the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970), imposing a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in order to counter inflation. This was the first time the U.S. government had enacted wage and price controls since World War II.
Nixon was a Republican.

@trainman
Yeah, but did it work though?

Effective policy is effective policy. You're allowed to embrace one idea without subscribing to a whole ideology; if you found a gold ring in the trash, would you take the whole trash can home?

@IvanTheBlue As I recall it did more good than harm, as a temporary policy.