• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    10 of the last 11 recessions happened under Republican presidents. Recessions are more effective at widening wealth inequality than even the most aggressive tax plan changes. The longer the recession, the higher the damage goes into the middle class, as privately owned businesses begin to fold and get scooped up by corporations.

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          3 days ago

          Because russia is not prepared at all for a recession. They have high inflation and stagnation at the moment (because of burning cash for the war, among other things), this is called “stagflation” and is just by itself a hopeless mess; if you up the steering rate to stop the stagnation and you kill the economy (the rate is already at a ridiculous 21%), lower the rate to favor economic growth and the inflation (which is according to the kremlin somewhere at 10%, but at over 70% for food according independent alalysists) will spiral out of control.

          It’s already an impossible problem to solve, add a global recession and it just gets way worse.