Inflation is up to 3.1%
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Jean toomer
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Georgiamuscle
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At least the Rethugs won’t have tampons in boys bathrooms 
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Pretty much all of the valley cities that got to be 500k over the years. Maybe I will finally be able to buy a house in socal
Kyle C. Barker
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Think of the supply/demand curve.
What type of pressure would making money more accessible have on the supply? What type of pressure would it have on the demand?
Sir Richard Spirit
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Talk to me like I’m stupid. What pressure on what demand? I’m asking honestly, because I don’t understand your question.
the cac mamba
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Trump's trade war is a failure and a disgrace. China is walking him like a dog
Kyle C. Barker
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Gotcha gotcha.
I was mostly responding to the part where you asked "Why would a rate cut worsen anything".
A rate cut would worsen inflation because of the upward pressure it would put on the demand (I don't see supply changing/increasing in this tarriffs environment)
I know the general mode of operation for decades has been to cut rates when the job market is stagnant. But that's a lot easier to do when you don't have growing inflation at the same time. Then you have the tarriffs which is adding more operating overhead which hurts hiring.
Sir Richard Spirit
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I thought this is what you were saying but I wanted to be sure.
Inflation is slowing and the job market is weakening. Does that not call for a rate cut? Ops own article points how inflation beat expectations.
Kyle C. Barker
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I'm not too sure if it's slowing. It just grew 0.1% less than what they predicted. It's still at 3.1%. The author of that article put an odd spin on things lol
To put things into perspective, 2% is considered a healthy rate of inflation. That's why most descent jobs that try keep employees give a 3% pay increase every year. That at least beats inflation. We might need a 4% pay increase to not be poorer in 2026.
OneManGang
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Cutting rates makes borrowing easier. People spend more money (they don’t have). Supply dries up. Prices of everything goes up.
You have to increase rates to control spending and inflation and ring every last dollar out the economy as possible without crashing it. Ppl don’t wanna hear that but that’s the only thing that fixes this (if we refuse to tax the rich properly that is)
Money becomes accessible. Imagine fighting for high interest rates lol.
