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5. He's not at all the first president to disagree with the fed

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2018, 07:54 PM

Oct 2018

But all other presidents do it far more subtly and respectfully.

And advocating lower interest rates a few weeks before an election is exactly the kind of political crap that led them to make the fed an independent institution in the first place.

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