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    Though Powell didn’t name it, he was clearly referring to “stagflation: slow GDP growth, high inflation, and high unemployment. The Federal Reserve refused to cut interest rates on Wednesday, as Powell described the concerns with Trump’s economic plans.

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        I’d be hard-pressed to find an economy other than socialism that didn’t, and gestures at everything in actual practice by actual humans, maybe not that. Barter maybe.