Let’s be honest:
for most people on this planet, nobody cares who runs the Fed or whether the US rate is 4%, 5%, or 1%. Rent, food, fuel, debt — that’s reality. Powell, rates, dot plots — background noise.
But markets care.
And that’s where the problem starts.
The Federal Reserve was designed to be independent. Today, it’s not. It’s captured — by politics, by markets, by expectations it can no longer control. When rumors circulate that a BlackRock executive could become the next Fed Chair, independence becomes a joke. That’s not monetary policy — that’s power consolidation.
Trump makes it worse.
Publicly demanding 1% rates, framing cuts as a “requirement,” turning monetary policy into a campaign slogan. This isn’t strategy. It’s pressure. And markets understand pressure as one thing: instability.
Rate policy stops being a tool and becomes a weapon.
Volatility isn’t accidental — it’s manufactured. Statements move markets more than data. Liquidity flows not to productivity, but to speculation. Bitcoin crashes, gold spikes, bonds convulse — not because fundamentals changed overnight, but because credibility did.
This is how trust dies.
When central banks lose independence, capital stops pricing risk rationally. It front-runs politics. That’s how you get liquidation cascades in crypto, violent rotations in metals, and asset bubbles that detach from reality.
Trump and his circle don’t just gamble with US markets.
They export chaos globally.
A world where rates are dictated by tweets, elections, and ego is a world of permanent uncertainty. And uncertainty doesn’t create growth — it creates manipulative volatility.
That’s the path forward right now.
Not stability.
Not confidence.
Just a faster slide into the abyss — for the US, and for everyone tied to its financial gravity. #FedWatch #RateCutExpectations #USIranStandoff #TrumpTariffs $BTC
