The banks can't pay back this loan unless the Fed cuts interest rates so they don't have to pay out as much to depositors. And the recent move to limit overdraft fees to $3 is going to cut billions of revenue out of the banking system too.
@Moon@feld interest will need to come down again in the US, the US gov is already bankrupt but it can go a few more years if it can refinance at 0.1% again.
@Moon replace Biden in that sentence with Federal Reserve and the answer is yes. It's exactly what Jerome Powell has stated as one of their goals: increase unemployment, reduce wages to bring inflation down. Once inflation is fixed they'll go back to focusing on full employment again.
@lain@Moon@romin the US can never go bankrupt, though. The Federal Reserve even made changes in 2011 to prevent it from being a remote possibility on their end too.
> Effective January 1, 2011, as a result of the accounting policy change, on a daily basis each Federal Reserve Bank will adjust the balance in its surplus account to equate surplus with capital paid-in and, in addition, will adjust its liability for the distribution of residual earnings to the U.S. Treasury. Previously these adjustments were made only at year-end. Adjusting the surplus account balance and the liability for the distribution of residual earnings to the U.S. Treasury is consistent with the existing requirement for daily accrual of many other items that appear in the Board’s H.4.1 statistical release. The liability for the distribution of residual earnings to the U.S. Treasury will be reported as “Interest on Federal Reserve notes due to U.S. Treasury” on table 10. Previously, the amount necessary to equate surplus with capital paid-in and the amount of the liability for the distribution of residual earnings to the U.S. Treasury were included in “Other capital accounts” in table 9 and in “Other capital” in table 10.
@lain@Moon@romin People are really stupid and dangerously patriotic, so they'll keep their faith in the money longer than is reasonable which worries me a lot
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@lain@Moon@romin all these people bleeding Red White and Blue are *extremely* confident that The US Dollar 💵 is the best money in the world -- why would they turn their back on that? They see the Dollar as a symbol of the country and of freedom (freedumb?), and if it fails the country fails. They'll never back down. They'll drag the dollar to their graves. Or at least until they can no longer afford their house payments anymore.
@feld@lain@romin it doesn't have to be patriotism it is just extremely hard to change your thought process away from the dollar being the world reserve currency and you live in dollarland
@Moon@feld@lain dollar losing reserve status doesn't necessarily mean that the dollar disappears, pound sterling still alive. You just need to pour your wealth on tangibles just a little before the hyperinflation or 'repricing' event