“They Don’t Have A Clue” – Trump Blames Fed For Strong Dollar, Says Interest Rates “Way Too High”

With less than a week to go before the Fed begins its next two-day policy meeting, President Trump is again lambasting the Powell-led central bank for having the temerity to raise interest rates and attempt to start unwinding its balance sheet.

This time, it was a tweet from Bloomberg Opinion about Europe’s difficulty in dissuading foreign tourists from visiting its popular landmarks (like, you know, the Cathedral of Notre Dame) that set Trump off. In a tweet, he accused the Europeans of manipulating the euro (and noted that other countries are doing the same to their currencies).

Though the Treasury added a few countries to its ‘watch list’ released last month, it declined to name any countries to its list of currency manipulators.

Meanwhile, Trump also bashed the Fed over its insistence on targeting higher inflation, saying (as most ‘normal’ people, ie nonbankers and members of the 1%, would agree) that nobody wants higher prices.

While economists once dismissed Trump’s Fed bashing and more recently his demands for a 1 percentage point rate cut as something between self-interest and madness, one economist recently pointed out that Trump has been extremely successful in shifting the economic conversation closer to his view.

Though in a sign that the markets aren’t taking Trump’s jawboning seriously after that Treasury report showed the US once again decided to pull its punches, the euro’s reaction was muted.

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via ZeroHedge News http://bit.ly/2wSKixn Tyler Durden

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