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The Fed is already floating the Ukraine situation as an excuse to delay rate hikes
Posted on 2/22/22 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 2/22/22 at 9:27 pm
They get more creative every year with reasons to kick the can down the road.
Fed floating their latest excuse to dial down rate hikes
Fed floating their latest excuse to dial down rate hikes
This post was edited on 2/22/22 at 9:30 pm
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Posted on 2/22/22 at 9:30 pm to south by southwest
Yeah this "WAR" has already caused gas prices to go up, not to mention the inflation!
Putin Bad
Potato Good
Putin Bad
Potato Good
This post was edited on 2/22/22 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 2/22/22 at 9:48 pm to south by southwest
The goal of raising rates is to slow down the economy. If gas prices do it on their own, so be it, but I doubt they’ll get the data necessary to go down that path without raising 4+ times.
Posted on 2/22/22 at 10:45 pm to south by southwest
This is the least shocking news of 2022
Posted on 2/22/22 at 11:04 pm to south by southwest
Rate hikes won’t help inflation in this instance anyways. Most of it is from supply chain issues
Posted on 2/23/22 at 7:10 am to slackster
quote:no that's not how it works. placing a democrat in office took care of slowing the economy
The goal of raising rates is to slow down the economy.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 7:16 am to deltaland
Brandon is using the Ukraine situation to divert attention from his administration's flawed economic policies. It is orchestrated theater .....
The runaway inflation, massive increase in gas prices, and the widespread economic pain for the middle class are all directly an outcome of Biden's energy policy, economic policy and congressional spending and mismanagement.
The supply-chain issues are a symptom, not a root-cause ...
The Fed cannot fix these policy-driven problems .... and understanding this makes one extremely cautious about investing in today's equity markets.
The runaway inflation, massive increase in gas prices, and the widespread economic pain for the middle class are all directly an outcome of Biden's energy policy, economic policy and congressional spending and mismanagement.
The supply-chain issues are a symptom, not a root-cause ...
The Fed cannot fix these policy-driven problems .... and understanding this makes one extremely cautious about investing in today's equity markets.
This post was edited on 2/23/22 at 7:21 am
Posted on 2/23/22 at 7:47 am to arcalades
quote:
no that's not how it works. placing a democrat in office took care of slowing the economy
I understand it’s fun to blame Biden for everything, and it may be fair, but that is exactly how it works. Raising rates is designed to slow spending/borrowing, which slows the economy and reigns in inflation. Raising gas prices is a pretty painful way to get to the same result.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 8:47 am to slackster
quote:
The goal of raising rates is to slow down the economy. If gas prices do it on their own, so be it,
Posted on 2/23/22 at 8:48 am to slackster
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Raising gas prices is a pretty painful way to get to the same result.
No it isn't.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 12:03 pm to Jjdoc
Wouldn't surprise me if Biden starts pushing the Fed to lower interest rates again for political purposes.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 12:30 pm to south by southwest
Honestly either way Biden goes with Russia is fine
Either print money and keep stonks going or let Russia invade and have red dawn here
It’d suck if we decided to be fiscally responsible all of a sudden
Either print money and keep stonks going or let Russia invade and have red dawn here
It’d suck if we decided to be fiscally responsible all of a sudden
Posted on 2/23/22 at 1:46 pm to Jjdoc
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Jjdoc
Do you have anything of substance to add to the discussion? Your disagreement in emoticons is noted.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 2:35 pm to south by southwest
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They get more creative every year with reasons to kick the can down the road.
Can't raise rates while a democrat is President.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 4:36 pm to The Boat
Raising rates at the point in time would be entirely for optics reasons
Posted on 2/23/22 at 8:18 pm to wutangfinancial
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Raising rates at the point in time would be entirely for optics reasons
Ummmm…correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t fighting inflation one of the two supposed goals of the fed?
And, doesn’t raising interest rates lower inflation?
So, isn’t that exactly what the frick the Fed should be doing?
However, they’ll never raise interest rates, as it will crucify our economy, as their usual bandaids of interest malfeasance have been gone too long due to the great theft from main st by wall st via QE this past decade plus.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 8:35 pm to BamaCoaster
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Raising rates at the point in time would be entirely for optics reasons
Ummmm…correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t fighting inflation one of the two supposed goals of the fed?
And, doesn’t raising interest rates lower inflation?
So, isn’t that exactly what the frick the Fed should be doing?
However, they’ll never raise interest rates, as it will crucify our economy, as their usual bandaids of interest malfeasance have been gone too long due to the great theft from main st by wall st via QE this past decade plus.
Exactly.
In the early 80s Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker increased interest rates to 20 percent to tame inflation.
Except in the early 80s we didn't have 30 trillion in debt.
Raise rates drastically and they won't even be able to pay the interest on the debt.
It's been non stop bailouts and QE since 2009.
They printed 5 trillion in the last 2 years and people wonder why there is inflation, and were gullible enough to believe it was transitory or all due to supply chains.
This post was edited on 2/23/22 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 2/23/22 at 8:40 pm to south by southwest
The people at the top either:
Believe in MMT, where debt and printing money doesn’t matter
OR
They’re trying their best to destroy the middle class on purpose.
Either way, middle class in this country is doomed.
Believe in MMT, where debt and printing money doesn’t matter
OR
They’re trying their best to destroy the middle class on purpose.
Either way, middle class in this country is doomed.
Posted on 2/23/22 at 11:43 pm to south by southwest
Predict the Day & Time that the Fed announces they will not raise rates in March due to Ukraine.
Powell must be giddy right now.
Powell must be giddy right now.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 8:51 am to BamaCoaster
No, their mandate is stable prices (which basically means anything they want) and low unemployment and their tool shed is basically a faith based market reaction that they control interest rates. Why would they need to slow economic growth when that’s happening naturally? Y’all are Fed obsessed it’s pretty amazing how well their game works. Like A bunch of CNBC puppets 
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