It's just petty corruption. The FED has raised rates (many people will lose from that). Some people don't want to lose from that. The FED decided to not raise r

It's just petty corruption. The FED has raised rates (many people will lose from that). Some people don't want to lose from that. The FED decided to not raise rates (ie: holding your low-rate bond to maturity is basically that) for some people. This "some people" are denominated "systemically important"; in other countries they are called "friends of friends", or "oligarchs". This is the closest the West can be to the East. We finally had the "rapprochement"!