I kinda don’t understand what Trump wants to do with the Fed. Lower rates obviously but just seems like high risk for marginally higher growth.
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1) He wants economy to go up 2) if economy goes down, he wants someone to blame for not letting economy go up
aug 26, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
People will sacrifice a lot to be able to move up the property ladder, or renovate. Or so they may be hoping.
aug 26, 2025, 1:17 am • 2 0 • view
Trump has bought a hundred million dollars in bonds over the last six months. If interest rates substantially decline, the selling price of all those bonds will go up.
aug 26, 2025, 2:19 am • 8 1 • view
yup www.reuters.com/business/fin...
aug 26, 2025, 2:30 am • 5 1 • view
Probably better to ask Pulte Homes what their theory is
aug 26, 2025, 6:32 am • 0 0 • view
Probably better to ask Pulte Homes what their theory is
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
he is not master of his own destiny and that scares him due to the late 80s and early 90s
aug 26, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
note I think his health also impacts this **unrelated** thing for anxiety in one area causes anxiety in other areas in most humans
aug 26, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
I hope their gerrymander runs out of juice too
aug 26, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I highly doubt he understands economics enough to have an idea, I think it's just the usual stew of dementia, narcissism, and wanting another plaything in this case Fed rates
aug 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
They've stood up to him, they haven't shown him respect, they need to be put in their place. It's pretty simple
aug 26, 2025, 1:16 am • 15 0 • view
He doesn’t deserve respect. He deserves contempt and scorn. I hope someone finally gives it to him
aug 26, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Trump's a real estate developer, I think he is naturally comfortable with low rates and uncomfortable with high rates
aug 26, 2025, 1:34 am • 5 0 • view
He thinks it will juice the real estate market. He’s not thinking so far as inflation. He thinks home owner voters will like the lower rates. His is real estate brain, tv brain, or facism brain. Nothing else up there.
aug 26, 2025, 7:31 am • 3 0 • view
Have heard that Trump world legit thinks that all will be well if rates are lower.
aug 26, 2025, 1:20 am • 66 0 • view
80s brain and real estate mogul brain strike again
aug 26, 2025, 2:20 am • 68 0 • view
Yup, there's a reason I focused on this so much in my summation Friday
aug 26, 2025, 2:23 am • 18 0 • view
Famous Minsky paper subject Donald Trump.
aug 26, 2025, 3:21 am • 3 0 • view
Noncommittally, id like to be more sure that this is actually wrong. What do you think? "All be well" is a high bar, but if inflation was COVID and some claim ZIRP 2008-19 was fine.. and tariffs are a one-off.. not obvious this wouldn't cynically boost public sentiment?
aug 26, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
My ex boyfriend believes this too & I keep trying to explain it would just fuel stagflation with Trump’s tariffs.
aug 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it as dumb as trying to offset higher input prices from tariffs with lower debt service costs?
aug 26, 2025, 1:23 am • 5 0 • view
I think it’s vibes
aug 26, 2025, 1:24 am • 18 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
this is Worse, right? like capital W Worse.
aug 26, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
my understanding is that if you're a manhattan real estate developer then interest rates are basically the entire economy and trump hasn't learned a new thing since the 80s
aug 26, 2025, 1:35 am • 10 0 • view
lots of things have changed since then, like trump's level of cognitive function
aug 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 5 0 • view
He wants to be able to refinance the national debt at lower rates. His primary concern isn't economic growth/mortgage rates/etc.
aug 26, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
He hates the very idea of a technocratic body that doesn’t just do what he says and he has no leverage over. It’s not rational - it’s “these guys are standing in my way so they are my enemy.”
aug 26, 2025, 1:15 am • 29 0 • view
It’s his basic view of the presidency, which he’s stated quite clearly. "Then I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” He views winning an election as placing him outside the rule of law and subject to no other authority. A view that SCOTUS is endorsing.
aug 26, 2025, 7:03 am • 2 0 • view
Several things: 1. He is a RE developer and therefore has a bias towards lower interest rates. 2. He thinks the Fed *sets* rates—it does set a short term rate and that rate is quite influential, not long-term rates are independent and set by the market.
aug 26, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
3. He wants an easing cycle to help paper over all the damage his policies are doing to the economy. 4. The stock market will like it and then he can say “See, things are great. 5. They need to refinance US debt and lower rates will make that cheaper. 6. He thinks he is in charge of everything
aug 26, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
Trump the modern monetary theorist
aug 26, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
Trump wants to set the rates, and doesn't want marginally lower rates. And also, he's dumber than a box of rocks, so none of his actions have any consistency or anything approaching rational decision-making
aug 26, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
He told us during the campaign. He wants lower interest rates, and lower inflation. We could have them both, simultaneosly, except for You Know Who.
aug 26, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
He doesn't understand it. He does not understand any of it. He likes to troll, act important, and bully people into "giving" him gold and cash. He probably asks one of his incompetent advisors to ChatGPT it for him.
aug 26, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
the fed also has regulatory duties so there’s probably some corruption angle
aug 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 5 0 • view
maybe money laundering, evading sanctions www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionr...
aug 26, 2025, 1:24 am • 3 0 • view
Trump is a pure destructive force guided by the passions and grievances of an uninhibited, wounded child. When you say "wants to do" you are talking about the enablers who surround him: the corrupt, the fanatics, the crackpots, the greedy, the fascists.
aug 26, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
Two possibilities: 1) He doesn't know how the Fed works. 2) He doesn't care how the Fed works.
aug 26, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
Lower rates could give just enough of a short-term bounce to let them hold the House in 26 election.
aug 26, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
He doesn't understand how any of it works.
aug 26, 2025, 5:32 am • 0 0 • view
People will love cheaper mortgages
aug 26, 2025, 2:24 am • 2 0 • view
Corporations that buy up houses love lower rates. This happened in Trump’s first term. The 2017 tax cuts gave the best rates to real estate investors. Corporate real estate investors bought up a lot of housing to use as rentals, outbidding families. This led to our housing shortage,
aug 26, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
resulting in higher housing & rental costs. Places like here in Florida they use a lot of these houses as vacation rentals so they sit empty most of the year. Those of us long term residents can no longer afford housing.
aug 26, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
He wants to reduce the rate by 1400 - 1500%.
aug 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view