Saturday, August 14, 2021

In the news, Thursday, August 5, 2021


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AUG 04      INDEX      AUG 06
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED


The United States economy recovered at a 6.5 percent annualized rate in the second quarter of 2021, and gross domestic product (GDP) is now above the prepandemic level. This should be viewed as good news until we put it in the context of the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in recent history. With the Federal Reserve purchasing $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and $80 billion in Treasurys every month, and the deficit expected to run above $2 trillion, one thing is clear: the diminishing effect of the stimulus is not just staggering, but the increasingly short impact of these programs is alarming.

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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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