Greedy businees people may threaten the economy.
Today I have economy on the mind.
Government does not fuel economic growth. Private citizens with money to invest, fuel economic growth.
Government can interfere in how much private citizens investment with policy initiatives.
It is a mistake for the FED to keep raising or lowering the interest because it allows corporations to manipulate government and the taxpayer has to pay for this manipulation. The FED changes interest rates on money under the assumption that if does not inflation or recession will occur.
Business people will not loose money. Well at least not, smart business people. However, corporate America has created the impression that if the Fed does not act then economic forces will result in recession or inflation. It is a rouse. Business benefit by lower or higher interest rates. When the rates are low, they pay less on interest. When they are high, they can charge the consumer more.
Right now, I would have to say that if there is a threat to the American economy, it is greed. Business people seem to think they can charge anything they want. The consumer, however, has a fair idea of what a sale price should be on what they buy. When consumers loose confidence in sellers, they will stop buying. This will lead to job loss and inflation.
I know that business people deliberately create appearance of economic distress in order to manipulate politics.
From the pressure of environmentalist, government raised vehicle mpg limits. This led to less consumption. Oil companies who had made their economic forecast on the revenue from the sales they were accustomed to raised prices in order make up for the reduction in consumption.
Reagan/Bush put in place policies that have contributed to the economic growth since the late 1980’s. He reduced financing of state governments. He involved the US in the GTO. Bush/Reagan initiated NAFTA. In addition, papa Bush got America out of the gold standard.
During this economic growth, private citizens were buying houses, not to live in them, but as investment property. So there were a lot of sellers and few buyers. How do you sell homes in a glutted market? You sell people with low income and bad money management practices on the hustle of adjusted rate mortgages.
Business people knew they could make money either way. People pay off the home and the banks profit on high interest. The buyers’ defaults and the banks keep the down payment and the home, and gets to sell it again.
When America succeeds, her economic partners also succeed. Were you had a lot of in countries such as China and India riding bicycles and living with their parents you now have Chinese and people of India buying cars and homes.
Therefore, now instead of one major consumer of oil-the US-you now have five countries trying to buy the same oil as the US.
Therefore, before you starts saying one politician can control a nation’s economy start looking all the factors that contribute to a national economy.
The people work, save, and invest control economies.
Sometimes these people want a profit no matter what the cost.