Comments on: Are They Actually Trying to Crash the Economy on Purpose? https://americanconservativemovement.com/are-they-actually-trying-to-crash-the-economy-on-purpose/ American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: ben https://americanconservativemovement.com/are-they-actually-trying-to-crash-the-economy-on-purpose/#comment-11256 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:34:11 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=191140#comment-11256 In reply to ben.

Then when it doesn’t work they send out the goon squad to blame the results of all their manipulation on free-market capitalism, when the mess they created wasn’t driven by free-market forces at all. Perfect smoke screen. It was the fault of them there eeeviil producers.

]]> By: ben https://americanconservativemovement.com/are-they-actually-trying-to-crash-the-economy-on-purpose/#comment-11255 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:07:21 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=191140#comment-11255 )]]> Seems to me they focus on the laws of supply and demand, but ignore the laws of mass production. The cost of producing that Model T, and the price the consumer had to pay for it, is directly dependent on the ability to manufacture higher quantities efficiently and in a short amount of time. Slow the demand to one or two Model T’s a day, and all the sudden that nice efficient production process is worthless, and the Model T is essentially as expensive as a custom-built car. The cost of production is going up, while artificially constricted demand is driving prices down, and it is then not very long before that Model T plant has to shut the doors.

Now on the supply side you’ve got multiple market forces all driving up costs, while on the demand side there are conflicting forces some trying to drive prices down and others trying to drive prices up. Well, that might possibly stabilize prices on the demand side, but all the while you’re driving supply side costs through the roof.

And whether or not artificially slowing demand could actually work is a crap shoot to begin with, because those same forces are driving down supply. Now you’ve got a race to the bottom between supply and demand, and a guessing game of which will outpace the other. At that point, you might as well be running to the highest point on the deck of the Titanic. You’re just putting off the inevitable.

Another factor is which side, supply or demand, at a given level of production, is the loan. It’s not quite as simple as supply side vs demand side. On the supply side, throughout the supply chain root system, we have both supply and demand at every level. When they go out and try to sell these interest rate manipulations, the focus is always on end consumer loans. Yet if you’re also making capital less available to the production side of things, your efforts are conflicting.

But I’m not an economist or anything. I’m sure they’re all far more knowledgeable than us commoners , and know what they’re doing – you know, since all they’ve been doing has worked so great thus far (🙄)

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