Cheap and easy money doesn’t get people out of a sick bed or quarantine to go to work or buy stuff...
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No it doesn’t.
But this isn’t cheap and easy money.
The cut brings the funds rate more in line with the market. The Fed was manipulating rates to be above the market for way too long.
“But this isn’t cheap and easy money.”
By historical standards we have had cheap and easy money for quite a while now.
The cut brings the funds rate more in line with the market. The Fed was manipulating rates to be above the market for way too long.
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However, the market manipulation of the Fed and their reasoning for doing so on a historical basis is difficult to rationalize and cannot be viewed absent politics. They kept us on a sugar high that masked the economic malaise of the last administration. Up to this cut announced today they have seemingly acted to dampen the economic surge under the current administration.
Trump has been correct in his assessment and his criticisms, but I am not sure why they acted so dramatically today.