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Bessent Floats Change To Fed’s Inflation Mandate
"Well, Martha, in case you don’t know, I’m actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain
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Backpfeifengesicht.
I know that word! One of my favorites. The Germans have a word for everything.
Sorry, wrong clip (but still funny). It should have been this one:
Are we sure that Scott Bessent isn’t confusing soybeans and Soylent green? Can we really say with confidence that Scott Bessent isn’t eating people?
Could be the start of a good comedy skit. Wonder if AI could help make a video?
As far as I know you can still add Sen Charles Grassley to your farmer list. I’ve stood on his patch.
Arguing to raise inflation targets and at the same time urging Americans to invest in Treasuries – Bessent won’t feel their pain either.
One of the major disconnects in American society is that the vast majority of political decision makers don’t have much (if any) of their own skin in the game. ‘I feel your pain’ is one of the great con jobs in a politician’s bag of tricks.
When you’re not winning (enough?), just change the rules yes?
Am I wrong in thinking H’s picture for this blog is a good example of what your face looks like right after a hit of laughing gas.
Yeah that’s the ultimate Scott Bessent picture. That’s probably the best $35 licensing fee I’ve paid in the history of licensing banner images. It’s just so — I don’t know — so Scott Bessent.
He might be the only human being whose actual picture looks like it was made by AI.