Too funny. Judy Shelton wants rates at 0% too!!!!
Looks.like Trump is doing everything possible to get his 0% interest rates which we all know is NOT happening in this market environment. If anything we need 4-5-6% interest rates. Get those interest rates higher so that the fed has room to room to lower them during the next crisis...have zero interest rates and a economic collapse will only bring Negative interest rates and we all know how exciting that would be...
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Trump’s latest Fed moves are another step in trying to take...
In a tweet Tuesday, the president said he plans on sending the names of Christopher Waller and Judy Shelton to the Senate as Fed governor appointees.
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Trump’s latest Fed moves are another step in trying to take control of interest rates
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KEY POINTS
- President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is going to nominate Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller to the Senate as Fed governor appointees.
- The president has been sharply critical of the central bank’s interest rate policy.
- “For the president, these are people who would support his position,” said Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC.
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The market and the Federal Reserve are currently far apart when it comes to expectations of where rates are headed. Two candidates who President Donald Trump said he is going to nominate to the central bank could bring them closer together.
In a tweet Tuesday, the president said he plans on sending
the names of Christopher Waller and Judy Shelton to the Senate as Fed governor appointees. Shelton was no surprise — Trump already has named her to a government post and previously indicated he’s interested in her for the Fed job.
Waller is a bit more of a cipher. As head of research at the St. Louis Fed, he’s maintained a low-key presence that makes it a bit more difficult to know where he’d try to take the broader central bank.
Taken together, though, they represent advancement of a key Trump belief, namely that
the Fed needs to be a more complicit partner in pushing the economic expansion higher, and should be doing so through lower interest rates and looser policy overall.
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“For the president, these are people who would support his position,” said Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC. “The president has the right to appoint people to the Fed who support his view on monetary policy. That being said, this is one area in particular where the Senate has rebuffed the president for various reasons.”
Indeed, Trump has struck out on his last four Fed prospective nominees. The last two in particular, Stephen Moore and Herman Cain, fell out of the process amid complications from issues other than their view on monetary policy and regulation.
As it pertains to Waller and Shelton, the two candidates more likely would face a tussle tied directly to their views.
Both seem to favor lower rates, at least for now, with
Shelton explicitly saying she thinks the Fed’s benchmark overnight rate should be around zero and Waller joining her in rejecting the traditional Phillips Curve argument that as unemployment falls, wages should rise and push inflation, necessitating rate hikes.