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Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
« on: April 07, 2019, 01:00:55 am »
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President Donald Trump yet again called for the Federal Reserve to loosen monetary policy on Friday, this time going so far as to say the central bank should return to the aggressive measures it undertook during the financial crisis......

“In terms of quantitative tightening, it should absolutely now be quantitative easing,” Trump said.

In the years after the financial crisis, global central banks attempted to jump-start their economies by buying trillions of dollars of bonds, in a process known as quantitative easing, or QE....


https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/trump-federal-reserve-jerome-powell-quantitative-easing-51554482632?mod=barrons-on-marketwatch&link=sfmw_fb


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Re: Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2019, 08:22:36 am »
Another day older and deeper in debt....
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Re: Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2019, 10:02:13 am »
Ummmmm....No.   No more monetizing the debt via QE.   :nono:  **nononono*
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Re: Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2019, 10:50:36 am »
Quote from: ABX on April 07, 2019, 01:00:55 am


And still so many fools here call him a conservative.  Wow have they been duped.
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Re: Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2019, 12:05:24 am »


Never give one an even break....
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Re: Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2019, 12:39:35 am »
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President Donald Trump yet again called for the Federal Reserve to loosen monetary policy on Friday, this time going so far as to say the central bank should return to the aggressive measures it undertook during the financial crisis......

“In terms of quantitative tightening, it should absolutely now be quantitative easing,” Trump said.

In the years after the financial crisis, global central banks attempted to jump-start their economies by buying trillions of dollars of bonds, in a process known as quantitative easing, or QE....

Shear idiocy.  Does he not realize where the $2 trillion to finance this year's budget deficit is coming from?  And how much our economy suffers because of it?
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Re: Now Trump Wants the Federal Reserve to Boost the Economy Like It Did During the Financial Crisis
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