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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Donald Trump promised to tackle cost-of-living crisis—now he’s risking inflation by demanding interest rates drop ‘immediately’

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images)
  • Progress reducing the rise in consumer prices has stalled, with recent data coming in hotter than expected. By pressuring Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell to lower the cost of borrowing, Trump could not only reignite inflation, but also spark a revolt from bondholders already losing their appetite for financing U.S. debt.

The problem with promising all things to all people is that eventually tradeoffs become inevitable.

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