Trump Urges “More Easing & Cutting” as Fed’s Independence Questioned

from Zero Hedge

After President Trump’s tweet overnight:

Australia’s Central Bank cut interest rates and stated it will most likely further ease in order to make up for China’s Coronavirus situation and slowdown. They reduced to 0.5%, a record low. Other countries are doing the same thing, if not more so.

Our Federal Reserve has us paying higher rates than many others, when we should be paying less. Tough on our exporters and puts the USA at a competitive disadvantage.

Must be the other way around. Should ease and cut rate big. Jerome Powell led Federal Reserve has called it wrong from day one. Sad!

Former Alliance Bernstein chief economist Joseph Carson has a few choice words following The Fed’s decision to cut rates by 50bps…

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