Trump Blames the Fed - Is This a Watershed Moment?
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so it's day two of the market falling
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dramatically so we're down 1,700 points
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or so from the previous high I guess so
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we came back a little bit
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I was only down 110 right now so yeah
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these things happen we know that markets
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Molotov we are seeing one thing that I
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think is new that I haven't seen in
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previous market moves that I can't
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remember at least so here we go
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Trump is blaming the market route on the
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Fed and saying you know Powell is is
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being too aggressive and raising rates
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too quickly so whether or not that is
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accurate you know I think calling you
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know how long these moves and interest
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rates aggressive front from the Fed side
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I think is a little bit ridiculous but
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this is the first time I can remember at
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least anybody publicly blaming the Fed
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and manipulating interest rates as
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affecting stock market and I think this
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is actually kind of critical in that you
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know making making the public aware that
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you know basically the at least a large
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part of the stock market moves and bonds
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and everything else in the financial
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world is heavily affected by what the
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Fed does so you know those two people
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yep you know Board of Governors
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affecting the economy you know wide so
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from that set from that perspective I
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think it's kind of an interesting
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watershed moment you know since 2008 you
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know the Fed has taken a much larger
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public role as far as you know how it
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operates and you know back in those days
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you had Ron Paul in the Congress and you
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know trying to grill Bernanke and
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and then we started seeing the Fed -
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holding press conferences for the first
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time ever so I think this is another
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step in that development of people
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becoming more and more aware so really
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interesting stuff and personally I think
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you know we are you know we're right at
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the top the we're seeing interest rates
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move more and more dramatically as you
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know the Fed rate comes up and then you
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know we approach whatever that natural
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rate of interest is in the current
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market and we go beyond that then things
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will roll over in crash and you know
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I've mentioned this many times you know
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anything that's interest rate sensitive
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like let's see we've got real estate
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that's always a big one we've got a car
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lending which is rolling over we've got
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suit loans credit cards you know bond
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funds because as interest rates go up
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bond prices go down so if you're in a
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bond fund the total value goes down if
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you're just gonna hold a bond in an
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individual bond I mean you're happy with
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the interest rate you're happy with the
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coupon that you're getting then great
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you know no problem and then you know
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we're seeing some you know secondary and
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tertiary effects in the stock market
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itself because you know a lot of these
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large financial houses are you know
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borrowing and doing carry trades and
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whatnot whether they're domestic or
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international so yeah a lot of our
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economic asset valuations are very
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closely related to the interest rates
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and course the Fed sets the base trader
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than the market reacts today so
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interesting stuff you know Trump is so I
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mean erratic in is one word but you know
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it's not like he has guiding principles
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that you know then dictates a course of
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action it's kind of like you know grab
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bag of you know this sounds good I want
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to do that at hawk so you know it would
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not even surprise me for you know if
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let's say the market rolls over and you
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know crashes and they go into a bear
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market
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and people are gonna blame Trump because
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you don't saw in his watch and Trump is
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not gonna want to take that so blame the
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Fed it would not surprise me for him to
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say that you know him pull like
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channeling the spirit of Andrew Jackson
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and wanting to end and the Fed you know
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I I'm not saying that will happen but I
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could see that happening and it would be
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really entertaining if that happened so
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keep your eyes peeled