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thehappypm
on April 12, 2022
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Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since...
Trump lowered interest rates to near 0%, what are you talking about exactly?
JoeAltmaier
on April 12, 2022
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Just wrong.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187616/effective-rate-of...
Izkata
on April 13, 2022
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What do you mean wrong? That link confirms what they said.
JoeAltmaier
on April 14, 2022
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Oh, you mean a symbolic lowering at the end of term to get votes? Yes that happened. But rates were not zero at any other time during that term. One can speculate that they would have gone right up again had the election decided differently.
thehappypm
on April 15, 2022
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Trump was president in 2020 when the pandemic hit and interest rates dropped, are you forgetting that?
JoeAltmaier
on April 17, 2022
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...just in time for the election
thehappypm
on April 12, 2022
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