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February 5th, 2008

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My government is retarded, part 2

As I was saying on Saturday, regarding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA):

[the agency] has now taken a tactic unfortunatly typical of government under the Bush administration—instead of improving their shitty services, they’ve started a blog.

The Federal Reserve is fast on the heals of the TSA, now giving netizens the chance to play being a central banker. With the tagline, “So you want to be in charge of monetary policy?”, the game lets you adjust the interest rate over the course of several years.

My post subject notwithstanding, this is actually sort of fun. I brought unemployment down to 1.5% with my crazy interest rates but saw inflation skyrocket. Mr. Greenspan would not be pleased.

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mihnea
February 5, 2008
2:00 pm
bah, curzon, you should have started a war on trumped-up charges and then given tax rebates to the wealthiest 1% of americans, while taxing the rest even worse..

amateurs :P
shane
February 5, 2008
3:26 pm
Neat game -- but what does it take to win? I had inflation around 1% and unemployment under 3%, but was STILL dismissed! (My prime rate was also pretty low -- around 2.5% -- at game end, below the bottom "band".)
Curzon
February 5, 2008
4:59 pm
Basically you need to keep rates right at the dotted ("ideal") lines. On my 4th try I got reappointed by managing to end smack bang with my rates on the right lines after a massive deflation shock -- but still had to start over! Reappointment only changes the newspaper end screen, nothing more.
Joe
February 8, 2008
12:19 am
There's a fun article on Bloomberg where the author did basically the same thing as Curzon... and the Fed:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a96RXmg5XRuc&refer=home
Curzon
February 8, 2008
1:45 am
His article is way better than my post, being descriptive.