9 Aug 2024 8:33 am
Isn't this the same guy that bankrupted three casinoes?Blackvegetable » 09 Aug 2024, 7:55 am » wrote: ↑ Republican nominee Donald Trump said that the president should have some say over interest rates and monetary policy, a move that would go against the longstanding practice of the US Federal Reserve being independent of political actors.
“I think that, in my case, I made a lot of money. I was very successful,” Trump said at a press conference Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. “And I think I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman.”
Trump Wants Presidents to Have Some Say Over Interest Rates
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... fed-policy
Why do idiots keep trying to convince us to trust their "instincts"?
We heard it from George W. , formerly "the worst POTUS of the modern era", and now it is being bleated by the current "worst POTUS of the modern, or ANY, era"...someone whoIf he insists that his record in business is indicative of "sound instincts", then he should make it all public.
- made Larry Kudlow his CEA, after his original choice revealed that Grifty is "dumb as ****"
- suggested nominating Ivanka for president of the World Bank "because she's good with numbers"
- proposed Stephen Moore for the Fed Board of Governors
- was so unreliable with his own numbers that his auditors disavowed a decade's worth of audited returns
- testified that his sworn statements of net worth should not be relied upon.