re: Why this is Trump’s economy?

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It's almost certain inflation will pickup over the next year or so and the Fed will have to keep raising rates to keep it in check.

Eventually this will cause a recession, and I just hope this doesn't happen before a midterm or presidential election.

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Not necessarily.

Go research Quantitative Tightening.

The Fed has been letting 10-year QE bonds mature without renewing, as well as MBS's.

Nearly $30 billion is falling off the Fed balance sheet every month at this moment, and that number is going up.

We've gone from owing the Fed around $4.5 trillion to now owing around $4.2 in just 11 months of QT.

This is helping keep the interest rate hikes slow and steady.

This is also another reason why inflation-adjusted GDP growth of 4.1% is so outstanding.

Inflation only went up 14.3% over Obama's 8 years. Just imagine how much worse his inflation-adjusted GDP growth would have been if they hadn't forcibly held inflation down while they doubled the M2 money supply with $4.5T of QE and another $900B of "stimulus".