Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Forewarned is forearmed: It will be bad-faith bullying.
What do you mean, "starts?" He was doing that all the way back in 2017.
Frankly, one of the things that doesn't get talked about enough is how the economic disruptions of the pandemic obscured (and thus let him off the hook for) his disastrous corporate tax cut and trade war with China. He was continuously bullying the Fed to lower interest rates from 2017-2019 because the economy was already heading for a crash because of his policies, so the pandemic downturn was a lot worse (and the bailouts a lot more expensive) than it needed to be.
He starts and stops. I haven't seen him doing any criticizing lately because the Fed has basically been doing what he'd prefer by trying to slow down the economy via rate hikes. The point of this article is that now that the Fed is shifting back in the direction of cuts, Trump's attacks on it will likely recur.
To be fair, the FED should have raised interest rates almost ten years ago, but they're a bunch of pussies over there worried about their "legacy." They let the economy run too hot and then when COVID hit the only tool they had left was to print more money. So now they had to raise interest rates and the free money train has ended, all these dickhead investors started buying up housing and other industries in order to commodify them. Bunch of weak bitches over there I'll tell ya whut.
It frustrates the shit outta me. I mean, always hearing people talking about lowering the fed rates and getting them back down to where it was.
For the longest time we were eating financial junk food. We're finally eating our fucking vegetables. Starting to get things back to a more normal world where having money in the savings account actually earns us interest. I mean fuck one of the biggest problems is americans don't have savings for emergencies. When you have a five percent interest rate on a savings account, it actually makes sense to put money in a savings account. Banks should be paying us to hold our money and then lending it out. That's how it used to be that's how it should be.
We don't need bottomless fucking growth we need healthy sustained Moderate Growth. Don't turn the floodgates back open for political wins every goddamn time You need a boost in the polls Or with your corporate donors.
Save that shit for the real financial economic emergencies like covid. When times are good, we should not be giving money out for free.
a more normal world where having money in the savings account actually earns us interest
this. I had one as a kid and in college but my interest rate was so close to 0% it may as well have been. I ended up closing it because what's the point? I only just opened one again last month because I was able to get a bit over 4% now, but at a diff rent bank because my old bank doesn't even have higher interest rates anymore. I used to throw my excess money into the stock market because that's where all the gains were but now I can get 4% with no risk thanks to the FDIC so that's what I'm doing now. these interest rates are normal and I'd rather this than the Era of Easy Money
The S&P 500 is 50% higher than it was before COVID. Unemployment is lower and inflation is under control. There was some shit inflation for a year and wages need to go up, but there was basically no hangover from the low interest rates.
The problem with real estate is mainly a lack of construction workers and equipment combined with housing code requirements. The average person can't build a house like they could in the past. That used to keep costs down. Look at any old house and you'll see some electrical or plumbing work that looks like the worker was drunk. You may even find beer bottles in the walls from those workers.
I'm in the dumbest situation. I was a federal employee so I don't know what normal people mean when they say the Fed.
Every comment is only calling it the Fed.
I've read too many New York Time articles to see what we are talking about because I'm not subscribed.
Not just asking for me but for anybody in a similar situation; what is the full organization name of the Fed?
The Federal Reserve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
Federal Reserve System, often shorted to 'the Fed'
Thanks. For some reason I was trying to make an acronym out of it. That's what I do for every other government agency.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
What I don’t know is whether the Fed is ready for the political firestorm it’s about to face, and whether it will stand up to the pressure to keep rates too high for too long.
Because it’s a safe prediction that Donald Trump and his supporters will scream that the coming rate cuts are part of a deep-state conspiracy to re-elect President Biden.
Biden, however, is already presiding over a very good economy by normal standards, with solid job growth and plunging inflation.
They will signal to the public that inflation really is under control; they will lead, other things being equal, to higher stock prices and lower mortgage rates.
And when it comes to interest rate policy, Trump has a track record of doing exactly what I’m sure he will accuse Biden of doing: trying to manipulate the Fed.
In a recent dialogue with me about the economy, my colleague Peter Coy suggested that the Fed may be inhibited from cutting rates because it’ll fear accusations from Trump that it’s trying to help Biden.
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I'm amazed he hasn't yet. Saving it for later.