Trump keeps saying he wants to fire the fed chair because he won’t lower interest rates, the he gets job numbers that give the Fed cause to do so and he fires the person in charge of those numbers. The only consistency is his furious unreality and commitment to destroying all trust in institutions.
Yes! There were fed gov’s that wanted a reduction this month. He likely would have gotten a cut, or more still this year.
And then all trust in the republic and then, finally, the republic.
Well that’s the play innit?
He just wants his face on some cash bills. Maybe more than one
So I fired my bathroom scale. Next I'm gonna fire the nutritional label on a pint of ice cream.
this is really helping me understand intuitively why authoritarians run their countries into the ground despite that being bad for them in the long run and it's because they're just broken, defective people
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His strategy is shooting the messenger
He doesn’t know how any of this works, and the media is too afraid to honestly report how stupid he is.
He doesn’t understand that different numbers are in fact interconnected in an economy
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He’s a dip shit with the brain power of a toddler
I think he's running scared because he feels it's slipping away. I hope.
No, it's all about his ego in the moment, no regard for the future. All foreign dignitaries have learned to open negotiations with on-camera flattery, & never contradict him in public.
L’état, c’est Trump
we are in dark times indeed
He is beyond dumb.
He’s doing a heckuva job.
I am confused by your notation the "job numbers" "give the Fed cause to do" (WHAT?) Are you saying poor job numbers are an incentive for the Fed to lower interest rates? Please explain.
He doesn't understand the correlation of jobs and rate. He wants all candy all the time. No vegetables ever.
It’s worked for him his whole life, but perhaps this is the time it doesn’t.
His whole like he was manipulating individual people. Now, trying to bend macroeconomic forces to his whim might prove more difficult.
His base will believe whatever his appointees say and US business interests seem to care about nothing but tax rates so…
