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uponit7771

(93,491 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 01:45 PM Apr 2025

100% the goal of all these tariff games are to get Jerome Powell to budge

100% the goal of all these tariff games is to get Jerome Powell to budge on interest rates Putin's Whore had during his first term.

The backfire in this is Trump's punk ass can end tariffs here after interest rates are lowered but the other countries don't have to.

A war doesn't end just cause one person decides they don't want to fight anymore.

We are in for some hurt.

Powell doesn't have to lower interest rates and if Trump gets rid of him cause he won't do what he wants the 2008 financial crisis will look like a walk in the park.

Stagflation is coming

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100% the goal of all these tariff games are to get Jerome Powell to budge (Original Post) uponit7771 Apr 2025 OP
If tariffs raise inflation before they cause a recession, I don't see how spooky3 Apr 2025 #1
YEP!! Inflation is already here with consumer spending net falling in all 3 months uponit7771 Apr 2025 #5
The last inflation number was not good. * 617Blue Apr 2025 #2
Right and people are still pre inflation buying uponit7771 Apr 2025 #6
Tarriffs are more likely to raise inflation, and thus the Fed will raise interest rates... Wounded Bear Apr 2025 #3
Laffer Admitted As Much ProfessorGAC Apr 2025 #10
I agree with all of this Prairie Gates Apr 2025 #4
Needs adult supervision. moondust Apr 2025 #7
Krasnov does not have the authority to Fire Jerome. gab13by13 Apr 2025 #8
Powell's term ends May 15 2026 so he can nominate a loyalist then wishstar Apr 2025 #9

spooky3

(38,265 posts)
1. If tariffs raise inflation before they cause a recession, I don't see how
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 01:47 PM
Apr 2025

The Fed will lower rates.

Wounded Bear

(63,833 posts)
3. Tarriffs are more likely to raise inflation, and thus the Fed will raise interest rates...
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 01:55 PM
Apr 2025

Reagonomics was never based on real economic logic, just wishful thinking by the executive classes.

ProfessorGAC

(75,843 posts)
10. Laffer Admitted As Much
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:58 PM
Apr 2025

Many years after supply side was considered a valid fiscal policy, he admitted he had no data or analysis to back up his counterintuitive ideas.
He just wanted it to work.
It didn't.
Unfortunately, it met the political goals of the Ronnie administration, and then the sanctimonious jerks at Univ of Chicago cheated their way to Nobels & other sources of credibility.

moondust

(21,198 posts)
7. Needs adult supervision.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:06 PM
Apr 2025

My guess is that he's going to sell tariff exceptions. Some countries might be willing to pay him a high price to keep their economies moving. I don't know anything about tariff law.

wishstar

(5,803 posts)
9. Powell's term ends May 15 2026 so he can nominate a loyalist then
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:54 PM
Apr 2025

But if Trump's economy slows drastically enough causing inflation to drop there can be more than a couple rate decreases over next year

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