Comments from Trump about the Federal Reserve
In a normal world this would be a controversy with the President weighing in on the Fed but we've seen this so many times before. What's a bit different is that Trump is about to appoint two men who might do his bidding.
That said, they're only two votes.
Update: Trump has added a call to shift to quantitative easing.
BREAKING: Trump says "I personally think the Fed should drop rates" because they are slowing down the economy and instead of "quantitative tightening it should actually now be quantitative easing" https://t.co/rlZqcl348z pic.twitter.com/rwxXgE87pg
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) April 5, 2019
This was when unemployment was at 9%.