Carolleisa<p>Just intuition, a convo, and quick reads about markets I vaguely recall from temporarily helping an expert at the Fed fine-tune their already excellent ESL just before the ‘08 bubble burst.<br>Hmm Why is Trump insisting on an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialratecut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialratecut</span></a> now? Could it push consumers esp fired federal workers to temporarily gamble what’s left of their savings to buy cheap but unwittingly give wealthy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AITech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AITech</span></a> a tailwind to capture the market long term. <br>How will it benefit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-financial-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cfr.org/timeline/us-financial-</span><span class="invisible">crisis</span></a></p>