• @[email protected]
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      -110 months ago

      That has never stopped presidents before. In response to inflation in 1971 President Nixon issued an executive order making it illegal to raise prices for several months and before him FDR went even farther with rationing and controlling wages.

      Inflation is actually super easy to control. You just need to be willing to threaten business leaders with serious jail time.

      • @iopq
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        410 months ago

        Yes, and we see how that worked. The inflation in the 1970s was crazy

        • @[email protected]
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          -210 months ago

          Well TIL, I always thought that executive orders were a way to bypass Congress. I know that there was a Democratic Congress in 1971, I wonder why they rubber stamped that for Nixon.