Trump sock puppet Warsh, failed to raise interest rates last meeting despite giving a press conference that made every justification to have raised rates. 3 dissenters (4 is record dissents in Fed history) voted to raise rates. With oil and diesel at record highs, and markets anticipating a rate hike… the only rational options are a hike, or the same BS hold while pretending to be serious about inflation.

Ceasing trade with all allies is one way to stop datacenters, though. But it’s also the last thread that keeps the US relevant to rest of world, and cause of putting up with Trump/US.

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    “Arsonists threatens to light burning orphanage more on fire if we don’t give him more jugs of gasoline.”

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    O would really love to know who exactly is controlling/manipulating trump? You know on his own he could not think of doing any of the shit he’s doing. He is literally not that smart to come up with all these “ideas” on his own.

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      The problem is it is entirely his own dementia/senility that goes unfiltered, and everyone around him is just zeig heiling the fuhrer.

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    Good chance that Trump is destroying the US and global economies anyway. There is no other explanation for the absurd chaos he’s caused.

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    I am loath to instruct Trump, but I can’t resist pointing out that in a hostage situation, one is not supposed to hold the gun to one’s own head.

    Edit: spelling. Loath, not loathe

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      Dont correct your enemy when he makes a mistake.

      Just do literally anything to get power out of his grubby hands already.

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      The US government always has the American people/economy in a hostage situation. It just previously avoided the bad optics of pulling a gun at their head, just so most people don’t know they’re hostages. We also like to think that voting can affect freeing our hostage status.

      Trump is literally pointing a gun at entire US economy and American people here. The federal reserve is also a supposed caretaker of American economy, although they have a bankster allegiance. Still there 2 very important reasons to raise rates right now.

      1. it will actually lower 10+ year bond and mortgage interest rates. Gives fed credibility in its inflation mandate, which is too high.
      2. Obscene US debt levels, and budget proposals to increase deficits with obscene/absurd military spending increases is causing a US currency devaluation, and low foreign appetite for US debt. Higher short term (all Fed controls) interest rates can stabilize this decline, again improving mortgage rates.

      Housing prices are declining. Both mortgage rates and general inflation are factors. holding rates has made this worse. Lowering rates would collapse the US economy through skyrocketing bond/mortgage rates as a Fed credibility failure before Trump shoots the hostages.

      in a hostage situation, one is not supposed to hold the gun to one’s own head.

      What you meant by this is that he would damage his approval ratings by shooting the real hostages. As the end of the movie “The Beach” normal people should disapprove after just pointing the gun to their head, and a sane media would not still be humanizing him.

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        I think it poignant that your last point is your least discussed. >>Sane media would bot still be humanizing him. Everything you said is true and I whole heartedly agree with it. But I don’t think the majority of Americans are media savvy enough to discern real from fake news let alone realize that the fact that there is essentially no independent media with mass credibility left in this country is essentially the reason he will continue to get away with this bullshit.

        Without a coherent message and the ability to spread it the media that does exist is able and perfectly content to continue promoting infighting to distract the less critical masses from the fact that the gun is infact pointed at them.

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        It just previously avoided the bad optics of pulling a gun at their head, just so most people don’t know they’re hostages.

        No, we all knew. And the optics were bad.

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      The USD lost over 10% against the Swiss Franc within 3 months after Trump took office.

      Which is why the record stock market gains he boasts about are pretty insignificant for European investors who don‘t use USD outside of investments.

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    pretending to be serious about inflation

    It’s clear the Trump government wants to inflate their huge debt away and don’t really care for who gets hurt as everybody important got a heads-up and moves assets as needed.

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    I can’t wait for the day. I don’t even need to say what day exactly. But it will be a great day. I will laugh and laugh and mock anyone and everyone on social media that says we should be respectful.

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    He also double downed on tweet in press conference. “Eliminating trade with allies stops them from stealing from us with trade surpluses” as a good idea regarless of interest rates. The significant auto sector factories by Asian/German brands does require some imports from those countries to employ American manufacturing/assembly sector. US brands need Canadian imports. US needs resources and oil product imports.

    In his rant against all the enemy thieves US trading partners, he threatened everyone except China.

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    I know this would be awful, but I really really really really want to see him do this

    It would be good/funny on so many levels.

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      Even if media can’t seem to press him on his decline/derangement (he is on a historic streak of this week surpassing the last week), it definitely should harrass all of his stooges, including those running for election in 2 months, on why they shouldn’t impeach him now if cabinet is too cowardly to use 25th ammendment.

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      The USA would implode 3 days after trade with China ends (and current inventories are depleted). There is so much about American life that makes no fucking sense if there are no widgets to buy.

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        NB: A lot of US-made product uses some Chinese inputs, so the aforementioned implosion won’t even be of just Chinese-made consumer widgets but also US-made ones.