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bucolic_frolic

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Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:45 PM Aug 24

To be clear, if you bought $100 million in US Treasuries [View all]

you would want one thing: sharply lower interest rates because the price of your bonds would go up.

You lower interest rates by lobbying the Fed, and it's unusual for that strategy to motivate the Fed, OR you want a faltering economy so the Fed will lower interest rates as a matter of policy.

You crash the economy by shrinking demand by deporting workers and by raising prices with tariffs. When recession strikes, the Fed does what it always does. It lowers interest rates.

Just throwing this out there, what did I miss?

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