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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

AOC Spreads Financial Misinformation to Advocate for Socialist Policies

‘This tweet is beyond misleading—it’s horses**t…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., was caught spreading misinformation about the federal government’s response to the coronavirus and using the virus’s outbreak as an opportunity to push for socialist policies.

After the stock market crashed last week, the Federal Reserve announced it would push $1.5 trillion in capital into the market to offset the economic imbalance.

Ocasio–Cortez immediately claimed that the Fed’s response is proof that the federal government can and should forgive student loan debt.

This is false. The Fed did not just write a $1.5 trillion check to the banks. Rather, it engaged in “short term transactions with banks to ensure financial stability,” according to the National Review.

This is a significant distinction, said Justin Wolfers, an economist with the Brookings Institute.

The Fed is not bailing out the banks, as Ocasio–Cortez is suggesting. Instead, it’s “lending to banks and strategically purchasing assets,” said Richard Morrison, a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, according to Fox News.

“The short-term lending the Fed engages in is quickly repaid by the financial institutions in question, even when, as in this case, the Fed has decided to dramatically scale up certain categories of lending in response to a market downturn,” Morrison continued.

“Whether this policy is the best one is a different question, but at the very least, American taxpayers should know that it is definitely not the fiscal equivalent of $1.5 trillion in new federal spending,” he said.

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