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I hate this timeline (slrpnk.net)
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[-] mephiska@fedia.io 55 points 2 months ago

Amazing. Treasury returns tend to be inversely correlated to the overall economic conditions. So when the economy (and employment rate) is doing well, Fed hikes interest rates to prevent an overheating economy, so treasuries lose value. When the economy slows, the Fed lowers rates, treasuries do well.

The people running the Treasury social media account live in opposite land, or they know they're spreading propaganda.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I thought high yield on bonds is bad for the government and means they had to increase rates to intice people to buy them. Meaning Trump is bad for the economy, according to the Treasury.

[-] huppakee@piefed.social 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wait is this an actual post by an actual gov agency?

Edit, also just noticed how last year was positive yet they still coloured it red lol

[-] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"A Classic Franklin Story: Franklin the Turtle Presses Charges For Copyright Infringement" when?

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

So finally Peter Schiff will end up being right

(He's been calling for the collapse of the US Treasury market since like 2002)

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Percent of what? I don't understand this graph.

[-] huppakee@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

It mentions returns so I assume it's how much money you get from your investment.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

I assume its bond rates, which actually inversely reflects economic confidence in the US. This is like a person celebrating that their credit cards interest rate went up because bigger numbers are better.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

These people are fucking retarded.

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Hey, whatever happened to that being a slur? I'm seeing it more and more, what gives?

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

People stopped giving a fuck and/or the ratio of artists on lemmy is high enough that reclamation is going on. Regardless these people are infact retarded.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Some people tried making It into a slur, but didn't catch on. It's just a regular insult, nothing to do with actually disabled people.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I would argue taking words out of reasonable vocabulary makes them more hurtful, and also just leads to more words that have negative connotations. Retarded is a word that has a definition. Calling someone a retard was common when I was in elementary school, but then we were told it was a slur, and we shouldn't use it. So the accepted words became handicapped, disabled, special, etc.

So guess what we called each other on the playground? Instead of one word, with a scientific meaning, there was now a slew of terms to hurl as insults, and they all meant the same thing. Any term that was trying to be more PC was going to be turned into a slur simply because nobody wants to be retarded.

Nobody wants to be handicapped. Nobody wants to be less-abled. Nobody wants to require special accomodations.

It doesn't matter what "friendly" word combination you use, it will always become a slur, because it's not good to be retarded. So by changing the accepted term every few years, we're just narrowing the vocabulary, and creating even more hurtful terms.

Outside of all of that, the other comment was using a slur as a slur, because fuck those particular retards. They didn't call them that to be friendly. They called them a hurtful term because they believe they deserve to be hurt. The purpose was the hurtful nature of the term.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Bonds are supposedly safe. You buy them because the rest of the market is unstable or potentially so.

It’s not a flex. You move to safe investments in times of worry. There’s more fear in the market so people are hedging their bets.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yup, gold is jacked to the tits right now.

[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

How is this not blatant copyright crime? I don't understand how these guys keep getting away with using copyrighted images and music with zero consequences.

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 0 points 2 months ago

I don't like it either, but it's probably fair-use provisions.

[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fair use does not cover political messaging.

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago

It would still be transformative use, no? Grant v. Trump maybe wouldn't be as comparable when it's slop-generated for example? But I'm not good at US laws.

[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If being transformative was the only test copyright would be pretty toothless, you could use any copyrighted characters you want as long as you told a new story.

Non-profit, educational, research, criticism, or news reporting; those are the categories that transformative use applies most to. Though for highly creative works (like an original character e.g. Franklin) even those categories are restricted.

The biggest test though is negative market factor. If the publisher can demonstrate it could damage their brand that is enough. Frankly this seems pretty obvious in this case, who wants to read about a fascist turtle?

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

The people who make these type of pictures are going to Hell for the warcrime of making these images. They all can face the wrath of my autistic hatred for all I care!

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Bond purchasing is bound by (confidence in the government's ability to pay back * bond payout) / (confidence in the stock market * expected stock payout)

With that in mind, please notice that the latter Trump bar is much lower than the former and remember that while the economy sucked in 2019, we weren't all meming about the active stock bubble about to destroy the market. The expected value ratios haven't changed as well.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

This isn't the win you think it is

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Investors buy treasuries and bonds when they don't trust business stocks.

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