I genuinely don’t understand it. We had years and years of brutal public services cuts and them being ground to the bone, where’s the money gone? People around me just say “tax cuts/payoffs for billionaires” but idk if that’s verified

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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    26 days ago

    During the 2008 crisis, QE made the debt a problem for some people.

    I read this as “Queen Elizabeth made the debt a problem for some people” and was struggling to figure out what she had done or said in 2008 that influenced this, before I eventually realized you meant “Quantitative easing”