r/wallstreetbets • u/Force_Hammer • 1d ago

News Powell sees tariffs raising inflation and says Fed will wait before further rate moves

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/powell-sees-tariffs-raising-inflation-and-says-fed-will-wait-before-further-rate-moves.html
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u/kevinbusta 1d ago

Its jover

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u/SouthIsland48 1d ago

Yea Powell aint helping Trump out. He was bullied throughout the first term. Powell gunna help the house go blue in 2026 lol FAFO

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u/caterham09 1d ago

The amount of red seats flipping to blue in 2 years is going to be enormous

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u/RontoWraps 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh, it turns out, boomers actually do want to retire and don’t want to have to reenter the work force at 70 just because they really didn’t like purple haired 20 year olds and they decided to nuke their retirement accounts to send a message. I’m 30, I can survive this era. Good luck if you’re at retirement age and decided to wipe off years of retirement savings and compounded gains over the last 30-40 years. I’ll outlive this shit, will they?

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u/CouncilmanRickPrime 1d ago

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u/Dozekar 22h ago

Not gonna lie, this is the funniest shit I've ever seen and how did people not see this coming?

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u/gm92845 20h ago

It's time to go full DEI now

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u/CouncilmanRickPrime 20h ago

PUT THE BLUE HAIR ARMPIT WOMEN IN WALL STREET

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u/lookingtobewhatibe 20h ago

Who knew hair dye was keeping us afloat!?

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u/C0r0naBallSackLord69 1d ago

I still hope they get fucked for pulling this shit

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u/Upper_South2917 1d ago

“Pronouns mentioned. Gotta live under a freeway overpass now.”

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u/Tylanthia 1d ago

It was mostly boomers who served as the guard rails in the last Trump administration. Now gen x and millennial regards are in charge

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 🐧 1d ago

I’ll outlive this shit

I appreciate your optimism

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u/Dozekar 22h ago

Argentina did this after world war 2 and is still struggling with related problems 80 years later.

I hope they're too young to trade if they want to out life the damage.

The institutional damage and trust in stability economically and legally that the US was built on has been seriously shaken, and all our economic strength was in it being easier to keep working with us than starting new with someone else. We just fucked all of that and can't get it back.

Edit: To put this in perspectives for the highly regarded crowd here, this is like asking your wife for an open relationship then discovering no one in town wants to fuck you and everyone in town is now fucking her and she really likes that a lot more than fucking you.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 🐧 21h ago

Ok but can I steal her boyfriend’s credit card and rack up a bunch of debt on hookers?

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u/Dozekar 19h ago

No but only because the hookers are busy banging her for free and even when they're not they only take cash.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 🐧 19h ago

Cam girls: checkmate

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u/RontoWraps 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ah I’ll be fine, I already served in the military and would be exempt from a draft. Best of luck to yall though I did my time. Unless they kill off all the 18-25 year olds and then start expanding from there AND changing the rules, no chance I’m affected. Plus, the current way we conduct war doesn’t really need as many bodies.

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u/Upper_South2917 1d ago

Same, at 41. They aren’t dragging my ass in.

And I had to register for selective service the month after 9/11.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 🐧 23h ago

I mean with declining birth rates they might take a page out of Ukraine’s book and use up everyone in our age bracket before touching the 18-25 year olds

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u/Upper_South2917 23h ago

If they’re conscripting older people in a country of 330 million. Buddy, we got bigger issues than our 401ks at that point.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 🐧 21h ago

Well, gen z is more malleable than millennials. Maybe they’d like an excuse to get rid of us

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u/Dozekar 22h ago

The current way we conduct war requires absurd amounts of money to regularly flow. If the economy gets fucked our military turns into Russias military really fucking quick.

People here seem to be unaware of this, but maintaining the most advanced military in the world is not free and the cost just went up by tarrif%.

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u/AnonymousLoner1 PAPER TRADING COMPETITION WINNER 23h ago

B-b-but boomers told us they love to keep working until they die just to pass the time and avoid their own families! 🤪

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u/NJstrong 23h ago

I agree with you 100%, but you’re also seriously overestimating the amount of boomers who actually have retirement savings. Those people were fucked regardless lol

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u/ZhopaRazzi 1d ago

Said 70 year olds will see you die in WW3 first. 

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u/RontoWraps 1d ago

Ha you’ve activated my DD214 trap card

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u/DrawohYbstrahs 21h ago

LMAOOOO

FUCKING DUMBASS RED STATES lol

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u/islander1 1d ago

I think you guys greatly overestimate the IQ and attention span of the voter base.

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u/caterham09 1d ago edited 1d ago

The voter base just elected people almost exclusively due to economic factors. If things get significantly worse, things are going to flip the other way.

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u/HoneyIShrunkMyNads 23h ago

"It's the economy stupid" will forever and always be the most relevant thing ever said by a president

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u/HedaLancaster 16h ago

It wasn't the economy last election, it was the russian fueled propaganda.

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u/trojan_man16 20h ago

Economic factors based on a complete misunderstanding of how the U.S. and world economy works.

The idiots thought that this admin could:

Miraculously bring factory jobs back

Lower prices of homes, despite the fact that we haven’t built enough to keep up with demand and inventory is super low because tons of people are locked in on historically low rates.

Lower grocery prices even though a lot of the inflation is due to the bird flu, two of the biggest wheat producers being at war with each other and cost of transportation going up.

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u/Noughmad 23h ago

The voter base just elected people almost exclusively due to economic factors

No they very much did not.

They may say they voted based on the economy, but those weren't the real reasons. They elected people who wanted to hurt other people. That's all. And boy did they get what they voted for.

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u/islander1 23h ago

If the voter base actually understood economic factors to begin with, we wouldn't be in this position.

My view is the point stands.

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u/docarwell 1d ago

Even if you think that's true people are just going to be reactionary and go against who's currently in charge especially if things are visibly getting worse in the day to day

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u/ZSpark85 1d ago

You put too much faith in American voters. Unfortunately, I have no hope for the midterms.

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u/Damaniel2 23h ago

You underestimate the stupidity of Americans. There are many, many people who don't care in the slightest how bad things get, as long as the people they hate have it worse.