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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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Approved or approved of?

Fucking headlines.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Right? I'm pretty sure he doesn't have to "approve" anything the Fed does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Not yet, but he wants to control them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Fairly certain he doesn't have anything to do with the fed interest rates. He's not a king as much as he wants to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He's not a king

Yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

He was able to convince them to keep rates too low last time during his presidency.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

trump is the fed's tool, not the other way around

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I'm guessing someone explained stagflation and told him when shit goes south he'll have someone to blame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Lower interest rates + tariffs. If you want to return to 2023 inflation, this a good way kick it off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

You made me do this! Yo, baby you know I love you and I didn't mean it.