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🗓️ 1 October 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report. |
0:04.0 | Feds rate cut helps candidate Harris but will hurt President Harris or Trump. |
0:11.0 | Many investors, businesses, and consumers cheered the Federal Reserve's |
0:17.0 | first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed's 50 basis points interest rate reduction was larger than many |
0:28.2 | Fed watchers anticipated and was followed by suggestions that there are more rate cuts on the way. |
0:36.8 | A drop in borrowing costs following the Fed's rate reduction can help make people more |
0:42.0 | optimistic about the general economy and their own |
0:45.4 | financial situation. The uptick in consumer sentiment could help Democratic |
0:51.7 | presidential nominee Vice president Kamala Harris |
0:55.0 | who has lagged behind Republican nominee former president Donald Trump |
1:00.0 | on the matter of which candidate is seen as better on economic issues. |
1:06.0 | Even before the feds rate cut, |
1:09.0 | President Trump and pro-Trump commentators were suggesting that a Ray cut would be a September surprise, |
1:17.0 | designed to boost Vice President Harris. |
1:20.0 | This claim was dismissed by the mainstream media as a baseless conspiracy theory. |
1:27.0 | However, anyone familiar with the Federal Reserve's history of tailoring monetary policy to advance political goals would not have any trouble |
1:36.4 | believing that the Fed would cut interest rates to help its preferred candidate. |
1:42.9 | Jerome Powell has an incentive |
1:45.2 | to prevent a Trump return to the Oval Office. |
1:49.7 | While in the White House, President Trump |
1:51.9 | regularly criticized Powell for not further lowering already |
1:56.3 | historically low interest rates. |
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