Last week Amazon's Jeff Bezos lambasted the Biden Administration for Biden's remarks about corporations needing to pay more, and how inflation can be tamed by increasing taxes on corporations. Report Pete Doucey had a great line of questions for the new Biden press secretary which further illustrated the level of crazy this administration has in its collective mind.
Now it is Musk's turn to take some well deserved shots at the administration.
The EPOCH TIMES has a great article, the full article is at the link below:
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Now it is Musk's turn to take some well deserved shots at the administration.
The EPOCH TIMES has a great article, the full article is at the link below:
Elon Musk: Biden Admin Must Do Something on Inflation or Risk Turning Into 'Venezuela'
Tech billionaire Elon Musk this week warned that the United States must take steps to address inflation or ...
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Elon Musk: Biden Admin Must Do Something on Inflation or Risk Turning Into ‘Venezuela’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk this week warned that the United States must take steps to address inflation or it will end up like socialist Venezuela.
Musk, who is currently in the process of acquiring Twitter, told a virtual conference that he believes the government has printed too much money in recent years.
“I mean, the obvious reason for inflation is that the government printed a zillion amount of more money than it had, obviously,” Musk said, likely referring to COVID-19 relief stimulus packages worth trillions of dollars that were passed in recent years.
U.S. inflation rose by 8.3 percent in April, compared with the previous year. That’s slightly lower than the 8.5 percent spike in March, but it’s still near the 40-year high.
“So it’s like the government can’t … issue checks far in excess of revenue without there being inflation, you know, velocity of money held constant,” the Tesla CEO said. “If the federal government writes checks, they never bounce. So that is effectively creation of more dollars. And if there are more dollars created, then the increase in the goods and services across the economy, then you have inflation, again, velocity of money held constant.”
If governments could merely “issue massive amounts of money and deficits didn’t matter, then, well, why don’t we just make the deficit 100 times bigger,” Musk asked. “The answer is, you can’t because it will basically turn the dollar into something that is worthless.”
“Various countries have tried this experiment multiple times,” Musk said. “Have you seen Venezuela? Like the poor, poor people of Venezuela are, you know, have been just run roughshod by their government.”
In 2018, Venezuela, a country with significant reserves of oil and gas, saw its inflation rise more than 65,000 percent amid an economic crash that included plummeting oil prices and government price controls. The regime of Nicolas Maduro then started printing money, thereby devaluing its currency, which caused prices to rapidly increase.
During the conference, Musk also said the Biden administration “doesn’t seem to get a lot done” and questioned who is actually in charge. “The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter,” he said. “The path to power is the path to the teleprompter.”