King Dollar Rate Hike
President Trump doesn’t want the Fed to raise interest rates. And he said so. Which is frowned on since the Fed is supposed to be independent.
It’s also awkward for Trump’s chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow, a strong advocate for a strong dollar. Or King Dollar as he likes to say.
Trump hired Kudlow in March. But in February here’s what Kudlow had to say on CNBC:
A strong dollar is an essential pillar of economic prosperity with minimal inflation, but we worry that the White House has not adopted this strategy. So we urge the Trump administration to return to the successful “King Dollar” policies that worked in the 60’s, 80’s and 90’s.
Uh oh. He went on to say:
We also worry that the recent widening trade deficit numbers will further tempt the administration into a weak dollar strategy.
The other nations are weakening their currencies. In order to protect our trades, we don’t need to be raising our interest rates. Trump is correct. There is no inflation to need a raised rate. The Fed helped Obama Admin by keeping Interest Rates at zero.