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Yes, it worked. The stock market is back up, and employment numbers "look good" (I mean a lot of that is workers getting discouraged, but still, the fed has achieved its mandate).

But how long will the stock market still be up, and why is it that over the course of those years the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer? Don't suppose it had anything to do with directly redistributing money upwards?




> the poor have gotten poorer

I'd love to see any evidence for the notion that the poorer have gotten poorer since 2008. (I don't dispute that the rich have gotten richer.)

FYI median household income is up since 2008: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=3kv6


What about the number of Americans receiving food stamps?

2008: 28 million

2016: 45 million

http://www.trivisonno.com/food-stamps-charts


look at real median personal income - it's still way down. During recessions, households tend to consolidate for savings purposes... If your argument depends on "people are struggling and aggregating to survive at the lowest levels of maslow's hierarchy" then fine.




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