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Federal Reserve officials saw need for 'careful approach' to future rate cuts https://www.ft.com/content/d4d2ee21-f124-48bb-ae38-983ac159b470

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-- Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) January 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Sounds like a problem for-----Super Orange Man!

I'm sure that he will get right on it.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-08 05:14 PM | Reply

Sounds like a job for Super Musk!

Faster than a speeding bullet train in an Undersea Continental Tunnel. More powerful than an Emperor King. Able to leap to Mars in a single bound!

Just be sure to get X Money code on your arm or forehead today!

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-08 05:22 PM | Reply

It's a given that the bankruptcy-prone dotard is going to crater the economy again

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-08 08:02 PM | Reply

Sounds like a problem for-----Super Orange Man!

I'm sure that he will get right on it.

#1 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-01-08 05:14 PM | REPLY: Actually it is a problem for We The People as it eats away at the value of our hard earned dollars.

BTW: There is not quic fix for this as even Reagan's administration took a couple of years to get the Carter inflation under control. Of course many of you here are too young to realize how bad it was back then.

#4 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-08 08:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

This is a problem that's origins goes back decades. It's not going away.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-08 08:36 PM | Reply

Simple fact: If the Federal Government takes in less revenue in taxes than it spends; the dollar loses value wgich which we refer to as inflation. Trump and Shadow President Musk have already told us the plan to slash taxes on the wealthy and rich corporations. whivh was the cause of the recent inflation. So, if you like inflation then you'll love the Musk/Trump economic plan. The Federal GovernmenrT will pAY ITS bills whether or not if they raise enough taxes to do so and when rhet dob't the dollar i sartificially inflated in value but commodity prices are calculated to preserve the value of those commodities in reduced value dollars. Sellers of commodities cans till sell their connodities for full value but the dollars they recieve in payment will be worth less in real value.

#6 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-09 12:46 AM | Reply

As of this morning (1/9/25) spreads of US Treasuries, A rated industrial bonds, BBB industrial bonds and BBB financial bonds are up almost 25bp from the day after the election. The Fed has little to do with longer rates, other than jawboning. From my seat in an investment organization I see a healthy economy with some warning signs being shown. Markets think inflation could grow because Americans are spending more than they are making (demand) and TrumpTalk is that there could be further constraints on imported goods because of tariffs (supply), so prices could rise. If in a month or so King Dotard II declares he was just jivin' about tariffs, rates will stay the same and consumption will cool. If widespread tariffs go into effect, once US suppliers have to reach across borders for tariff-laden goods, prices to the consumer are guaranteed to rise. Two things will then happen--demand will fall marginally, and prices will rise. Inflation will grow from its current modest level. This could cause a spiral and the US could be in a recession within the coming 12 months.

Of course, the fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat will blame his predecessor, the guy under whose watch the S&P 500 grew more than during the reign of Dotard I...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-09 09:49 AM | Reply

Oh good. The Fed will respond with the only stupidity they have, raising interest rates. And it'll be the late '70s all over again, with crazy inflation combined with insane interest rates, which won't do anything for the inflation because borrowing money won't be the cause.

We're headed for a massive recession, if not a depression.

Maybe we'll get lucky and this bit of late stage capitalism stupidity will finally trigger the communist revolution.

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-01-09 10:31 AM | Reply

This is a problem that's origins goes back decades. It's not going away.

#5 | Posted by BELLRINGER

Ah, so "Bidenflation" was destroying the country but higher inflation under Trump will suddenly just be a "problem".

#9 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-01-09 02:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" This is a problem that's origins goes back decades."

... to the folks who reset America's fiscal sights from surpluses to deficits.

At least be honest about what the EQUATION says.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-09 02:34 PM | Reply

"Fed Sounds Inflation Warning"

No one warned us of the 9+% that hit us in 2022... It must be (D)ivverent.

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-09 05:55 PM | Reply

No one warned us of the 9+% that hit us in 2022... It must be (D)ivverent.

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-09 05:55 PM | Reply

You're so lame that you have to copy Jeff's meme.

Psssssst It's (D)ifferent. Just sayin

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-09 06:01 PM | Reply

" No one warned us of the 9+% that hit us in 2022."

Steve Ratner did. He warned, with the third stimulus, more money was being put back into the economy than the economy had lost during Covid. In many ways, the third stimulus caused the inflation.

For the record, Donald Trump promised a stimulus 42% larger than Joe Biden's. As bad as inflation was, it would've been WORSE under Trump.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-09 07:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Steve Ratner did.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-09 07:40 PM | Reply | Flag

I stand by my comment. "No one warned us" Fckk Jerome Powell

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-09 09:30 PM | Reply

"He warned, with the third stimulus, more money was being put back into the economy than the economy had lost during Covid"

And if Trump would have vetoed any stimulus money, federally enhanced unemployment or PPP, you would have been the first to bitch about it. Go crawl back in your hole.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-09 09:34 PM | Reply

" ... if Trump would have vetoed any stimulus money ... "

STFU. Trump was the one demanding $2,000, which is 42% more than Biden's $1400. "Almost" $200 billion more of inflation.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-09 09:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm not interested in debating hypotheticals.

" Ah, so "Bidenflation" was destroying the country but higher inflation under Trump will suddenly just be a "problem".

#9 | POSTED BY DEREK_WILDSTAR AT 2025-01-09 02:29 PM | FLAG: "

I've been saying all along that the high inflation we experienced was the result of decades of a series of bad policies.

"Bidenflation" exacerbated it but wasn't the root cause.

#17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-10 01:59 PM | Reply

Bidenflation is so bad, record profits are being reported across the board.

There's no such thing as inflation, it's simply a cover for price gouging.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 02:43 PM | Reply

-Bidenflation is so bad, record profits are being reported across the board.

are you celebrating record profits?

Because when Trump's president and we have them......you'll use them as a reason why this country is ------.

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 03:20 PM | Reply

Must be by I referred to it as price gouging.

Because I'm celebrating it.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 03:22 PM | Reply

you're funny, Clown. I'll give you that.

no such thing as inflation? LOL

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 03:25 PM | Reply

- when Trump's president and we have them....

Bev falling off the fence into the Dark Orange Side.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-10 03:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Dork keeps jerking himself off to a picture of Mao.

corporate profits and just that no matter who's in the WH.

But dork is convinced a dollar of profit generated changes in nature depending on who's in the WH.

#23 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 04:05 PM | Reply

Not just "corporate profits".

But all time high corporate profits.

It's almost like they raised the price on everything for no reason.

But sure. Just keep blaming Bidenflation.

It's so clever.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 04:48 PM | Reply

"But all time high corporate profits.

It's almost like they raised the price on everything for no reason."

It's almost as if they WANTED Biden as president.

#25 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 04:56 PM | Reply

Totally. They were like, "Let's raise all the prices and blame it on Biden. Because we love Biden."

Remember when Trump promised to lower the price of eggs.

Seems he's shifted his focus to invading Greenland.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 05:09 PM | Reply

"Greenland" is actually code for Melania.

And she's scared sh..less.

#27 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-10 05:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

- jerking himself off to a picture of Mao.

In psychology that's called a projection... an image that exits in someone's mind that is then projected onto someone else.

Just sayin'.

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-10 05:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Yeah, but what was Mao wearing?

#29 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-10 06:09 PM | Reply

Might as well--------. If you're carrying around a picture of Chairman Mao you're not gonna make it with anyone anyhow...

#30 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-10 06:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

-In psychology that's called a projection.

In the locker room at your local YMCA, it's prohibited and grounds for suspension.

But you've leaned that by now ... ... .

#31 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-10 07:20 PM | Reply

... Federal Reserve officials at their December meeting expressed concern about inflation and the impact that President-elect Donald Trump's policies could have ...

From what I heard, not all of the Fed Governors are on board with that.

Found this ...

Fed Minutes Show Officials Were Eager to Slow Interest-Rate Cuts
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

... Federal Reserve officials in December adopted a new stance on rate-cutting amid elevated inflation risks, deciding to move more slowly in the months ahead.

"Participants indicated that the committee was at or near the point at which it would be appropriate to slow the pace of policy easing," minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's Dec. 17-18 gathering showed. "Many participants suggested that a variety of factors underlined the need for a careful approach to monetary policy decisions over coming quarters."

They cited higher inflation readings, continued strength in spending, and reduced downside risks to the outlook for the labor market and economic activity, the minutes, released Wednesday in Washington said. US central bankers cut their benchmark lending rate by a quarter-point at that meeting to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.

The Fed's staff incorporated "placeholder assumptions" about potential policy changes under incoming US President Donald Trump, resulting in an economic growth forecast that was slightly slower, with inflation also expected to remain firm.

The minutes showed "a number" of policymakers indicated they also included placeholder assumptions in their updated economic projections. "Almost all participants judged that upside risks to the inflation outlook had increased," the minutes said.

Officials expected the US jobs market to remain solid. However, they "generally noted that labor market indicators merited close monitoring." ...


#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 07:40 PM | Reply

- In the locker room at your local YMCA, it's prohibited and grounds for suspension.

How long were you suspended? Was Mao also suspended?

Don't keep us in suspense!

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-11 03:35 PM | Reply

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