The ‘Just Can’t Win’ Dynamic
I was tempted to say something generic about not wanting to "beat a dead horse," but I stopped myself.
Usually, when someone starts a discussion with "I don't want to beat a dead horse," that's precisely what they want to do. Almost by definition, that lead-in means the narrator is hell-bent on posthumous equine abuse.
There are countless examples of such conversation starters. "With all due respect" is the classic case of a speaker preemptively absolving himself. If you hear "With all due res
Even the quality of rude discourse has degraded, as “with all due respect” has given way to the more colloquial but even more fatuous, “just sayin,” which presumably empowers the speaker to say whatever idiotic or inconsiderate thing that pops into his mind.
Similar to the “let me be honest with you..” as if you wanted them to lie to you but it is supposed to make one feel better about the dump on you about to happen in the name of honesty.
Or my personal favorite, “excuse me” when it roughly translates to get the heck out of my way.
And why are we all supposed to apologize for beating a dead horse? Isn’t that more compassionate than beating a live one?
A growth slowdown combined with higher yields across the board likely result in an equity market sell off- large cap growth won’t be able to stem that tide.
The dead horse beatings will continue until the owner buries it.
Or it miraculously springs to life again.
“NGL” is another recent trend.
That would be the stagflation scenario. If stagflation does occur, the Fed cannot pull out their playbook of printer go brrrrr to stop the slide.
“printer go brrrrr”
We really need to come up with something less juvenile than this. In addition to being puerile, it’s so clichéd as to be cringe-worthy.
While cringe, that meme did spawn societal debates regarding the role of the Fed and what they can do with their power over the money supply. I believe that meme increased the awareness that the Fed controls the money supply. The Fed has always controlled the money supply through open market operations even before 2008 and QE, but how many people not in finance were actually aware of it? Even people in finance were not aware of that fact.
Neo-classical economists still believe and teach banks are intermediaries and do not create money when they make a loan. While memes can be derided, they do serve a purpose.
Also, I won’t use the meme ever again in the comment section given your distaste for it.