DOW closes down 507 points.
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Do you find it interesting that the Fed never raised rates under BHO. Not once. So people had to invest in equities. Now there are other alternatives. PRIME is 200 basis points (2%) higher now than under Obama. That is significant. Especially when you owe $20Trn in debt.
Actually, the Fed did raise rates under Obama...twice.
United States Prime Rate History
The reason they are going up now is - I assume - because they are worried about the economy and they want to have some bullets left in their gun when the next recession happens.
You cannot keep rates WAY down forever...or all the debt will eventually destroy the economy.
The above chart shows that money is changing hands at the lowest rates since the late 1950's...WAY lower.
That means no one is spending their money - they are just using cheap debt to do things with. That is bad.
Remember, rates started to plummet under GWB. And the current Fed Chair and Vice Chair were BOTH appointed by Trump.
So him whining what the Fed is doing is strange since he put the people who 'run it' where they are.
For the record, I thought GWB, Obama and Trump all have done TERRIBLE jobs with the economy.
But at least Trump has put in place Fed people who are doing what needs to be done...raise rates back up to historical norms.