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by emptyfile 1353 days ago
Having austerity during low rates and fiscal expansion during high rates is a pretty bad idea.

However, if your currency is NOT the US dollar, then its a catastrophically bad idea.

In short: Truss and Kwarteng are intellectual lightweights whose economic ideas make for funny reading* but in reality are a recipe for disaster. Their line of delusional thinking can be traced directly to Brexit, when the UK lost their collective minds.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained