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I don't think it's that deep or that Trump is even thinking ahead. He just wants the rates to be lower.

• wat10000 10mo ago
  Exactly. He thinks he knows better than the experts. He thinks lower interest rates are good and people saying they should be higher are just trying to make him look bad. Nothing he does is a clever gambit.
  • JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
    > He thinks he knows better than the experts It’s a kleptocracy. He doesn’t care. He just wants cheap money from the Fed as patronage.
• beej71 10mo ago
  This model makes the most sense to me. If you just model it as: Trump wants to do things that make Trump look good, everything he's done fits into it quite nicely. If you want to predict his next move, think to yourself, what does Trump think will make him look the best to his adoring supporters? Logically, conquering Greenland makes zero sense and is only damaging to the United States. But to his supporters, it will make Trump look powerful and good. Which is why he's talking about it, and why I think there's a decent chance that he's going to do it. I just hope there are enough sensible people left in his idiocracy cabinet to stop him.