Maybe not in Europe.

But it's still very good in America.

The successful are targeted insofar as the better you do, the more you must pay

Yes, that's a...I forgot what it's called... progressive tax system.

But you don't pay a net increase percentage.

Accordingly, interest rates, much like prices, have lost the discovery mechanism

Well, you do pay a net increased percentage, but not directly in line with the stated tax percentage.

There are organizations that intervene if they see markets trending in certain directions

What money you do save loses value over time

And the rates, unless you take some large risks are not commensurate with the rise in prices

Housing for example should be way down, but restrictions on building and interventions in the housing market on the back end buoy prices up

There are organizations that intervene? Aside from leftists, what organizations?

Money does lose value over time, that is why you should be investing.

That's why there's multiple strategies to managing money and one of them is to spend it as fast as you earn it (typical of poverty and hyperinflation).

Housing is a funny one. You're right about legal inflation, but there's also matters of location, location, location.

Federal reserve and other Central banks

Plunge Protection Team

Yes, because that would cause too much damage.

That's not a bad thing, per se.

For those not savvy enough for stocks, I argue that interest rates do not show the true state of the market

They should be higher

They definitely do not.

Interest rates, these days, are not at all representative of the market.

They are lever to be pulled to, hopefully, induce a desired change.

Cocky bitches get so offended when they try to be authoritative and you find it really funny so you chuckle in amusement

😂

@Xychotic. They are trying to goose spending by keeping it low

goose? did you mean boost?

The speed of transactions is too slow to keep things going so they are playing around with other parts of the monetary system

Or is goose the word used in a different way than I'm familiar?

Boost

Problem is though, the consumer is tapped out

Millenials, the next big block are in debt

Boomers are retiring and are at a point where they will be taking money out and not adding it into the system

Everyone is fighting for a bigger portion of a shrinking pie.

With the family destroyed, household formation and child rearing is low

Big ticket purchases are being done later in life than is traditionally expected

I agree with you on much of this.

Bring back patriarchy and it will help things

Damnit I developed a stye

fuckin' hate those.