Victor Davis Hanson: Jerome Powell’s Standoff With Trump's Booming Economy

The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | Aug 1 2025 | victor davis hanson

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At the start of August, the economic numbers tell a surprisingly strong story despite every prediction to the contrary. GDP is up, inflation is holding steady, unemployment remains low, and for the first time in years, the federal government actually ran a surplus in May.

So why are media outlets still talking down the economy? And why is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell refusing to cut interest rates, despite earlier recession warnings that never materialized? Victor Davis Hanson breaks it all down on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“Remember that The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and our main media organs all told us in May when Donald Trump was talking about art of the deal tariffs, … we were going to have high inflation, stagflation, bad job growth, static GDP, and a trade war along with a Wall Street collapse, basically a recession. Well, wall Street stock prices are at historical highs. Every one of those predictions was wrong.

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“If [Powell] is worried about a trade war, and tariffs and soft job growth, which was predictive but didn't happen, why don't you lower interest rates? And the fact is that if you look at the interest rates that he did cut right before the 2024 election and his all over the map, attitude toward interest rates today, there is no logic because if he's worried that the economy inflation might— it's gone up one 10th of an point and it's steaming and then he's going to what? Keep interest rates that high?”

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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

(0:00) Economic Health
(0:54) Current Economic Indicators
(2:14) Reactions to Economic Data
(3:17)Interest Rates and Federal Reserve
(6:07) Trump's Economic Strategies
(8:00) Final Thoughts

A 9 minute video from Prof Hanson discussing the intransigence of Jerome Powell, and the reasons why a rate Decrease should be on the horizon, About 9 trillion is debt from the Biden administration needs to refinance this year. Yeah, this is important.

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[V_TWIN]

“why is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell refusing to cut interest rates”

I thought the FOMC did that, not the fed chair alone?

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” why don't you lower interest rates?”

simple ....
ORANGE MAN BAD

The BLS has been playing loose and fast with numbers in order to give Powel a false wall to hide behind.(was there collusion)
That's gone now.
With the current revisions it is obvious that the whole BLS needs to be flushed.

Trump is taking action on that now.
And with an open spot on the Feds board, I think we may see some changes.

Don't get me wrong, I think the economy is strong...
but we are not seeing job growth but rather a shift from gov jobs and foreigners to private jobs and Americans working.
A rate cut would help drive the Trump train forward and that's the last thing Powel wants.

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Because the left wants Trump gone so bad they’ll do anything to lie to us and try to turn us against him.

They hate him so much that they simply CANNOT bring themselves to admit that Trump is actually doing ANYTHING good.

Have you seen them admit to one good thing that President Trump has done?

What an existence, being so consumed with hate. It’s almost enough to make you want to feel sorry for them.....

But nope, not getting it yet. They chose that path. They can reap its rewards.

[texas booster]

Yes, but the FOMC is comprised mostly of Powell followers.

I don’t see them going against Powell, and for Trump.

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Why do we even bother with government statistics if they are always wrong?

Only because politicians want it.

Save the money and shut the whole place down.

[bray]

Stage five TDS.

[combat_boots]

Intel coup

https://gettr.com/post/p3nxfzb862c