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re: Inflation down to 2.3%. Why hasn't the Fed dropped rates?
Posted on 5/29/25 at 3:23 pm to GumboPot
Posted on 5/29/25 at 3:23 pm to GumboPot
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Has to get below 2.0% before they consider dropping rates. 2% is the Federal Reserve goal.
Fed cut 50bps in September when stock market at record high, Atlanta Fed was forecasting +3% US GDP growth and inflation was 2.5%
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 3:24 pm to GumboPot
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Has to get below 2.0% before they consider dropping rates. 2% is the Federal Reserve goal.
So why did they drop rates leading up to the election?
Posted on 5/29/25 at 3:30 pm to SDVTiger
If it goes up it will be minimal. The rates have a cause/effect but the crazy inflation we saw was due to the out of control government spending in 2020-2022. They flooded the economy with money. The benefits of lower rates would far outweigh any small ticks you would see in inflation.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:02 pm to AUauditor
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I could use it...I am closing on a mortgage in about 90 days.
I’m building a house and will be finished in the fall. I pray that the rates go down!
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:03 pm to HubbaBubba
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:07 pm to HubbaBubba
It’s obvious that the Fed thinks that inflation is not low enough, for long enough, yet. And they are probably correct. For too long we were stuck with the Fed borrowing rate near zero, with little powder in the case of recession. Extremely low interest rates are not necessarily a good thing. You want the economy to work with the Fed rate not too low, that way when the bad times hit they can lower the rate to make good things happen.
Trump wants the economy to boom so that we can grow out of our deficit. That would be great, but if you lean too hard into that it would create instability and a boom/bust cycle that would have the opposite effect. Trump is a smart guy, but the intricacies of that probably fall well outside of his baliwick.
Trump wants the economy to boom so that we can grow out of our deficit. That would be great, but if you lean too hard into that it would create instability and a boom/bust cycle that would have the opposite effect. Trump is a smart guy, but the intricacies of that probably fall well outside of his baliwick.
This post was edited on 5/29/25 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:10 pm to ronricks
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The truflation site is a joke
Hpw is the data a joke?
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run by a grifting huckster.
What does this have to do with the data they provide. You and that old idipt LSURussian keep sayong this
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If we listened to you mortgage rates were supposed to be in the high 4's by now.
They were in Sept of 2024
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You are nothing but a wishcasting Trump sycophant.
Arent you the broke tard driving a car with 300k miles and lives in a trailer
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:13 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Why did Trump fold?
He didnt
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:26 pm to SDVTiger
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They were in Sept of 2024
No, they weren’t.
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Arent you the broke tard driving a car with 300k miles and lives in a trailer
You live in an 800 sqft cuckbox condo and tried to brag about it on here
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:33 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Why did Trump fold?
You’re outdated, the new terminology is: TACO
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:54 pm to ronricks
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No, they weren’t.
Yes they were. Only idiots like you on the MB think they werent
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You live in an 800 sqft cuckbox condo and tried to brag about it on here
Please link that. You are a poor who drives a car with 300k miles
Posted on 5/29/25 at 8:37 pm to GumboPot
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Has to get below 2.0% before they consider dropping rates. 2% is the Federal Reserve goal.
U know how this goes. Later theyll revise it to 1.7 and say oops.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 8:39 pm to HubbaBubba
The world is against DJT....that's why.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 9:11 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Maybe it's because I lived through the 80's and 90's when 30 year mortgages hit 15%
That was like in 1982. Certainly the average rate in the 90s was less than 10 (probably less than 8).
The average rate for a 30 year mortgage from 1971-2024 is nearly 7.75%, we're current at 6.9%.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 9:33 pm to Bass Tiger
For the next two weeks, go on tv and tell the FED to go f&$k themselves. Don’t fire anyone, don’t take questions, just say it everyday at the same time of day.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 9:40 pm to LSUconvert
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They're interested in the long term health of the economy.
Trololololololol
Posted on 5/29/25 at 9:45 pm to the808bass
I swear, some of ya'll are short selling and hope the market drops. A quarter-point drop would signal a bit of confidence, and we all could use a bit of that right now, but then ya'll be caught with your pants down.
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