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/browsk 1d ago

Based as fuck from Powell, playing chicken with the biggest bully in the sandbox, and can’t lose

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u/Dozekar 22h ago

He's not playing chicken. He's playing damage mitigation.

Lowering rates won't make stocks go up, it'll make people panic harder.

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u/Tresach 21h ago

honestly wish he would announce a rate hike, let the world burn.

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u/GarrettdDP 20h ago

Fuck yeah. I will be pissed if this whole thing leads to lower rates and lower corporate tax.

Small business owner.

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u/Dozekar 19h ago

Unironically if he announced a rate hike it would have been less destructive to markets than lowering would be. It would show that it's under control and they're keeping calm heads not panicking and trying to catch a knife and giving up on inflation entireely.

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u/Beelzebufo7 12h ago

Coming from a family that had a variable mortgage in 1979, rate hikes are what is coming.

Even if unemployment is at 15%.

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u/handsoapdispenser 21h ago

He's literally doing his job. The Fed has no obligation to the stock market and the jobs report was still solid.

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u/mdatwood 18h ago

And he's spot on that inflation is about to rip. I wonder if we can bet on if the next move is up/down.

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u/Hacking_the_Gibson 14h ago

You can. SHY tracks short term Treasuries.

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u/PaidUSA 10h ago

Someone is going to lose so much money because you told them this.

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u/sniper1rfa 20h ago

I mean, it would definitely make stocks go up. It'd make milk go up 2x as fast though.

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u/Dozekar 20h ago

You're assuming we can make inflation outpace the drop without further even more terrible impact to businesses.

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u/sniper1rfa 19h ago

I mean, there's no upper limit to inflation.

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u/X-Calm 17h ago

Adults shouldn't be drinking milk anyway.

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u/-_-0_0-_0 18h ago

Asset inflation if rates drop.

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u/Beelzebufo7 12h ago

Stagflation ends with 10% interest rates, not 0%. He's not playing chicken... he has to figure out where the first fires break out.