Fed Chair Jerome Powell on 60 Minutes: The US is on an unsustainable economic path - eviltoast
    • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      He’s also a bureaucrat, not an elected official who can change the tax laws. He literally has no standing when it comes to making laws.

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        9 months ago

        He could certainly make a suggestion. Congress is the one that has us on an unsustainable path and he has no problem pointing that out; so why not a solution?

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          9 months ago

          And elected officials would have a fit if he did, 'cause it’d be crossing into their legal territory.