It would be idiotic to utilize that tool when the economy is still flourishing what will they do when we actually start transitioning towards a down time? Very weird to me.

Fed's Bullard: Moving Now Would Be Insurance Against Slowdown

Agreed. We all know it would look terrible on the Fed to raise rates in December and cut it so fast in about 7 months.

Fed's Mester: Cutting rates now could reinforce negative sentiment, encourage financial...

I feel like tariff was a recently learned word or something and everyone has to throw it around now.

U.S. proposes adding more tariffs to $4 billion of EU goods

It is true it would be a quick turn around from December of just raising rates. That would look terrible on the Feds part.

Fed's Kaplan says growth more sluggish -Fox Business Network interview

It's literally because of all these trade/tariff issues. If it wasn't for that US economy is definitely in a much better place economically speaking compared to EU and a lot of other developed nations currently.

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Declined in June

Then it technically made no sense for them to raise rates in December. Regardless of them changing the fund rates it obviously hasn't helped inflation in any direction so they need to look at other tools in their box. Economically US is still strong ...

Fed's Bullard says he dissented at Fed meeting on concerns over weak inflation, growth

Damn bro still salty about Obama it's your show now stop complaining.

We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sites, 10 minutes before the...

You're truly right you can't ask a country to change their fundamentals especially if it relates to their core values. This issue magnified 1000x when it could've easily been working towards a fix in the longterm.

China: Top Officials From China And US Trade Teams Will Hold Discussions

The only thing that truly made me mad is if he did all this fire starting to just then compromise on a deal (meaning their was a deal that was viable all along and a bunch of grandstanding just happened for political gain). Remember he needs to look ...

China: Top Officials From China And US Trade Teams Will Hold Discussions

I'm not sure why people were expecting a cut to begin with. Firstly it would have looked pretty bad on the FED if they just had a rate increase in Dec to then make a U-turn by June. I think once the trade issues die down once again USD will be in a ...

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

This eerily reminds me of the WMD's in Iraq which were never found.

Trump administration blames Iran for tanker attacks in Middle East

Right on the nail this has investors spooked at this moment and really we are just looking to hear positive things after the G20 summit but it can also go against the grain and even get worse. We are all sitting in the middle of the seesaw trying to ...

Trade war could cause global recession, Beijing official warns, as US investment growth in...

What signs are you referencing? The unemployment is still low, the labor market is still performing though it's definitely seeing tighter conditions. The global uncertainty with all these tariff issues is the major red flag in the US that along side ...

U.S. weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rise

I agree I do feel like there will be some trade deal progressions in them meeting later this month. Running to social media to talk about his trade dealings is in his arsenal pouch along side tariffs and economic threats.

Trump: Will put tariffs on $325B of China goods if no deal

Could someone just grab his phone for a while.

Trump says China wants to make a trade deal very badly

Overall it's still in decent shape but the economic expansion is starting to dwindle down now as we are starting t seeing weaker data in some certain areas. Inflation also has been really underpinned and I really want to see the CPI data tomorrow to ...

Producer Price Indexes - May 2019

How did we go from they need to curb illegal immigration to buying agricultural products?

Mexico Never Agreed to Farm Deal With U.S., Contradicting Trump

I think gold will definitely tinker down from the high of 1340 back to the low 1300 region.

Trump says the US has ‘indefinitely suspended’ planned tariffs against Mexico after reaching a...

I believe the only reason we are even mentioning rate cuts is due to the rising escalation of all these trade issues on multiple fronts. Your correct economically USD is in a great position with the labor market being tight and productivity in the ...

ECB's Draghi says GC stands ready to use again instruments like lower interest rate