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Rates went down because the underlying economy was seeing slowing growth; particularly due to impacts of the trade war.


Trump on the one side of his mouth was trumping up "record economic growth!" but on the other side of his mouth was complaining "the economy will crash if they raise rates!"

It is crazy that the Democrats are the fiscal conservatives these days while the Republicans are much more irresponsible (though Obama and Biden are definitely nowhere near Clinton in terms of responsibility, they are way more responsible than Bush/Trump).




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