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Talking heads: “Waiting on Fed to cut interest rates.” WTF!?

Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:22 pm
Posted by Covingtontiger77
Member since Dec 2015
11659 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:22 pm
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Every single person on CNBC, CNN, FOXBusiness have all stated that the Fed waited too long to lower interest rate

WTF!?!?

The interest rates are fine. If anything, they need to be raised, not lowered.

Lowering interest rates, artificially inflated the stock market and also enables cheap borrowing for the American public so that they can engage in further destruction of their personal finances.

Lower interest rate is not a fiscal policy when you have $35 trillion of debt

The US does not have an interest rate problem. It has a spending problem!!!


This is absolute insanity to listen to these people, saying that lowering interest rate is our way out of this


Anyone that’s buying into this is a moron


For once I would like to see someone go on one of the shows and say we don’t have an interest rate problem we have a spending problem. From the US government all the way down to mom and dad.

Posted by Sp0728
Your head
Member since Aug 2018
2221 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:23 pm to
How about we get away from the made up, fake, unbacked Fiat Currency?

Its dumb as rocks

Posted by theballguy
Member since Oct 2011
30287 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:25 pm to
They are just being fed talking points from their handlers. They're so stupid they don't know anything different.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
79954 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:25 pm to
It's almost like the US economy is too large to be controlled by a small group of elites that think they know better than everyone else.
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
38412 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:26 pm to
quote:

The US does not have an interest rate problem. It has a spending problem!!!
Higher rates provides even more consumer dollars to spend.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
57870 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:26 pm to
The only things I've seen on this have been people trying to wishcast such an emergency meeting/cut into existence.
Posted by Veritas
Member since Feb 2005
10171 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:27 pm to
It’s because no one wants to fix the problem. Rates should have gone to 10% 3 years ago.
Posted by I20goon
about 7mi down a dirt road
Member since Aug 2013
19087 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:28 pm to
"rescue us Fed! I know we put you in an impossible position with the illegals and vote buying on top of decades of poor economic policies but you have to rescue us because Trump is Hitler"
Posted by rob0710
LA
Member since Oct 2004
913 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:28 pm to
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.


Raising the rate isn't for you or I. They don't care if we feel more inflation pain. It's for those in the ivory towers.
This post was edited on 8/5/24 at 12:30 pm
Posted by hawkeye007
Member since Feb 2010
6067 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:31 pm to
let me know when you and millions of American homeowners are ready to take a 30-40% cut in the values of their homes,. That is what happens if they raise rates higher than they are currently.
Posted by Covingtontiger77
Member since Dec 2015
11659 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:34 pm to
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let me know when you and millions of American homeowners are ready to take a 30-40% cut in the values of their homes,. That is what happens if they raise rates higher than they are currently



Nonsense.

Home value have increased with the rate increases.

It’s supply and demand.


Raise the rates.


Raise them.


Cut spending

Cut spending by Fed govt

Cut spending by Americans

Learn to live within your means.
This post was edited on 8/5/24 at 12:36 pm
Posted by Hooligan's Ghost
Member since Jul 2013
5673 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:35 pm to
they stopped making sense
Posted by Azkiger
Member since Nov 2016
26910 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:37 pm to
quote:

saying that lowering interest rate is our way out of this


There's no way out of this.

Too much debt from too many programs supporting too many gimmedats.

Start preparing for a rocky future. Getting out of the big cities and suburbs should be priority #1.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
465708 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:39 pm to
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Home value have increased with the rate increases.


Excuse me, what?
Posted by AZHorn
Southern Arizona
Member since Aug 2021
1062 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:44 pm to
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let me know when you and millions of American homeowners are ready to take a 30-40% cut in the values of their homes,. That is what happens if they raise rates higher than they are currently.


It's gotta happen anyway. People dealt with that for decades. If you're going to buy a house nowadays, you have to understand it will lose value and gain value over time. The housing market is in a big bubble right now due to big investment firms keeping the market alive and needs to correct.
Posted by Azkiger
Member since Nov 2016
26910 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:46 pm to
quote:

Home value have increased with the rate increases.


( X ) Doubt.

quote:

Cut spending by Americans


Didn't you just say home values increased with interest rate hikes?

So you want to increase rates, which your saying will raise home values, but you also expect Americans to spend less?

How do they spend less when what you're suggesting, according to your own logic, increases the most expensive item on any American household budget?

You should go work for the Feds.
Posted by Veritas
Member since Feb 2005
10171 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:47 pm to
It’s kind of a half truth.

Some markets they have some they haven’t.

Posted by Buryl
Member since Sep 2016
1022 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:52 pm to
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It’s because no one wants to fix the problem. Rates should have gone to 10% 3 years ago.


Need to get spending under control. Raising rates without curbing spending won’t address the root causes of inflation, and is a massive benefit to the wealthy. Unfortunately both political parties exist to serve the top .1 percent, so I don’t expect a real solution. Whatever happens, I expect the middle class to get screwed.
Posted by boomtown143
Member since May 2019
9407 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:55 pm to
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
52002 posts
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:57 pm to
quote:

Lower interest rate is not a fiscal policy when you have $35 trillion of debt

You think the government should aspire to pay higher interest rates on its enormous debt?
quote:

The US does not have an interest rate problem. It has a spending problem!!!

Well, we certainly have a spending problem, but we also have an interest rate problem.
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