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indusurb

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1. He can't

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:26 AM

Jul 25

Jerome Powell would simply ignore such a decree, as would the rest of the financial world. Different ballgame next year when Trump gets to appoint his own sychophant to the Fed Chair position. I imagine whomever it is will bow down to Trump and drop interest rates to 1%, and crash the economy in the process.

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