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"Republicans do nothing but public corruption & donor maintenance.

Trump & his billionaire donors get to orchestrate a financial crash & benefit from low interest loans to buy up bankrupted businesses & homes cheaply.

Trump can balloon the national debt with impunity & impose more tax cuts for the rich.

Russia can refinance its war on Ukraine more easily."

https://fortune.com/2025/08/20/national-debt-lower-base-rate-budget-trump-powell-pressure/

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bond-buying-how-much-return-fed-interest-rate-cuts-2025-8

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/interest-rates-have-broken-global-wealth-pump-2023-06-23/

Business Insider

Trump has bought $100 million in bonds since taking office. His portfolio is poised to get a boost if the Fed cuts rates.

Trump has repeatedly pressured the Fed to cut rates, something that could boost bond portfolios, including his own.

Fortune

President Trump may want a lower base rate on behalf of consumers, but it sure is convenient for national debt too | Fortune

While Trump frames the issue as consumer pain, Wharton’s Joao Gomes told Fortune that cheaper borrowing would also ease interest payments on the government’s $37 trillion debt burden—likely a central motivation.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · last month

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-role-setting-interest-rates-economists-bad-idea/story?id=112773679

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-07/trump-and-interest-rates-this-isn-t-how-you-lower-them

Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/world/europe/russia-interest-rates.html

https://cepa.org/article/russias-bankers-fight-inflation-and-the-kremlins-war-addiction/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/russia-cuts-sky-high-interest-rates-for-the-first-time-since-2022.html

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-housing-inflation-interest-rates-economuy-2130419

The rich
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/why-the-rich-get-richer-and-interest-rates-go-down

Why the young can't afford a home, low interest rates stir housing speculators.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/upshot/low-interest-rates.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-economic-inequality-federal-reserve-real-interest-rates-study-2021-8

Business Insider

The wealthy — not the Fed — are to blame for low interest rates and rising inequality, study says

Wealthy Americans' incomes surged the last 50 years. NBER researchers think this created a "vicious cycle" of tumbling rates and a yawning wealth gap.

https://www.nytimes.com

Some Say Low Interest Rates Cause Inequality. What if It’s the Reverse? (Published 2021)

Institute for New Economic Thinking

Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down

Going Down the Rabbit Hole at Jackson Hole

Newsweek

Russian real estate in peril as third of developers face bankruptcy

Russia's war economy is taking its toll on the housing sector, according to analysis by Ukraine.

CEPA

Russia’s Bankers Fight Inflation and the Kremlin’s War Addiction

After two years of fiscally-fueled growth and double-digit inflation, the Russian central bank is claiming a victory over galloping prices.

https://www.nytimes.com

Russia Again Cuts Interest Rates as Its Economy Slows

Bloomberg.com

America, This Isn’t How You Lower Interest Rates

The US administration’s efforts could have the opposite of the desired effect.

ABC News

Trump wants a role in setting interest rates. Some economists say it's a bad idea

Donald Trump recently said the president should have a role in setting interest rates but some economists say that's a bad idea.

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