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Posted on 4/11/25 at 11:55 am to Joshjrn
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Rates can be raising while still being lower than they should be.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 1:43 pm to Harry Boutte
quote:Any rate cut spurs economic growth. Trump (and others) argued the Fed was holding America back from even greater heights. Inflation was in-check, yes. We’d have to go back and read articles or Fed minutes to see what was going on exactly in 2019. They could have paused as well but they didn’t. I don’t remember why they cut, just the fact it was continual raising for almost 3 years and inflation continued to be stable, and you don’t raise just to raise. Lots of other factors come into play.
In June, 2019 inflation was at 1.6%. Why would the Fed start cutting their rate? It seemed really strange to me at the time, considering they had spent all 2016 raising it up from nearly zero, while keeping inflation under 2%. Why would he start dropping the rate when inflation was under the target, and unemployment had been falling all year and was at 3.6%? It really seemed like the best time to raise it.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 1:56 pm to LSURussian
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LSURussian
Let’s say we are in a state of hyperinflation and the Fed starts raising the key rate 10 basis points every three months. In spite of the rate going up, I imagine most people would say that the rate was still too low under the circumstances.
N’est-ce pas?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 1:57 pm to Mushroom1968
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Explain this to me like I'm a 4-year-old girl with pigtails who just fell off my bicycle and hurt my knee while holding a sucker.
Businesses got more for their money in March than they did in February.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 2:35 pm to TDFreak
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We’d have to go back and read articles or Fed minutes to see what was going on exactly in 2019.
He was being brow-beaten by Trump is why. He wanted to put the pedal to metal with the economy and have GDP skyrocket. I'm not sure he understands how that could lead to inflation.
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President Donald Trump on Friday blasted the Federal Reserve for undermining the US economy.
“They really slowed us,” Trump told reporters. “I personally think the Fed should drop rates.”
Trump argued that if the Fed cut interest rates “you would see a rocket ship.” But even so “we’re doing very well.”
Trump hasn’t been shy about criticizing the Fed, once calling them “crazy” and “loco” for raising rates four times last year.
CNN - April 5, 2019
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