re: Yahoo Finance:The smart money is preparing for Trumpflation

Full edit, because I misread:

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Yes of course it was

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Yes, because talking about what Trump did while the "sitting president" is somehow present or future, fricking clown

Also, I love that you still haven't acknowledged that your post clearly says "or lower rates"

ETA: Also, I'm now confused. Are you saying my post *currently* doesn't read as speaking out events in the past, or that they were talking about the future, but I edited it to talk about the past?

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You said Orange wants negative rates for his next run. You edited that out after i asked you where he has said that recently

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So it's your position that I said that Trump said he wants negative rates during his next term in the following post, but that I edited it out?

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Are you fricking retarded? The Fed chair is appointed by the president. When the sitting president starts barking that any talk of raising interest rates by the Fed is simply an attempt to undermine his presidency, and in fact we should potentially lower the rates into the negatives, only an idiot, or a Fed chairman who wants to lose their job, is going to publicly buck that president when their term ends during said presidency. And guess whose current term ends during the next presidential term...

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You said it was a fact he has said it and posted a link to cnbc from last year where he said he would lower rates

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I've just now realized how we've been talking past one another. When you posted this:

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Has Orange been calling for negative rates if he gets back in or lower rates?

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I interpretted your question as asking, more clearly "Has Trump been calling for either negative rates or lower rates if he gets reelected?" Apparently (if I give you the benefit of the doubt, which I feel rather foolish doing, but I'll try...) you meant, more clearly "Has Trump been calling for negative rates if he's reelected, or is he simply calling for lowering rates?" So my posting a link to an article clearly saying that he would want rates lowered, I believed I was answering your question when (again, giving you the benefit of the doubt...) I was not, which you then interpreted as my... I guess posting a link hoping no one would actually read it?

ETA: And now that I went back and looked, my sentence before the link was again clearly referencing lowering, not going negative.

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Yes obviously

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Ok, cool. Just wanted to make sure. Your doubling down on something so absurd while ignoring potential common ground is all I needed to see to show me that giving you any benefit of the doubt is a fool's errand and that continuing to engage with you is a complete waste of time

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Tariffs were how the US government was originally funded, long before an income tax.

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Yes.. back in the 1700 & 1800’s. Would you like to go back to that economy?

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By 1890, the USA ‘s economic output was twice that of its closest competitor, Great Britain.

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Now run the numbers compared to today.

China is within that margin, if that means anything.

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Trump went nuts on Jpow for trying to raise rates in 2018.

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You are correct and that's more than fair.

But inflation is not 100% correlated to interest rates as in there are other factors.

The fed isn't 100% controlled by the president so Trump can't just come in and lower interest rates to whatever he wants.

Again though as I said, what would a democrat have done differently? What has Biden done outside of not decreased interest rates?

I'd argue some of the largest impacts on inflation are:
1.) Min wage and other democrat wage/ employee policies
2.) Insurance - policies that are increasing insurance rate (also natural disasters out of any president's control)
3.) Healthcare
4.) Welfare policies
5.) Ukraine funding

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I'd argue some of the largest impacts on inflation are:
1.) Min wage and other democrat wage/ employee policies
2.) Insurance - policies that are increasing insurance rate (also natural disasters out of any president's control)
3.) Healthcare
4.) Welfare policies
5.) Ukraine funding

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In light of the current (but trending down) inflation, under which category do we put covid checks and loans? Welfare policies?

Your take sounds political. Inflation would have occurred if Trump had won the last election as well.

In the same token. Look how much money Trump spent during Covid. 30% of all the money the US has ever printed was printed right before his re-election campaign and through the end of 2021 which was Biden’s first year. It’s ignorant to say that this didn’t begin with Trump and continue with Biden.