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Trump Admits It’s The Fed’s “Job” To Push Stocks Higher

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

When President Trump demanded earlier this month that the Fed should cut interest rates to undo some of the damage it has done to the economy with its pernicious rate hikes, we pointed out the obvious dissonance between advocating for rate cuts while insisting that the economy is the strongest it has ever been.

But the incongruity disappears when one considers that the central bank's "dual mandate" simply masks its true purpose: To levitate asset prices and ensure that wealthy Americans get richer, while (at least for now) averting an all-out pension fund crisis.

Though the central bank's "third mandate" is rarely, if ever, directly acknowledged, President Trump violated this convention in a tweet on Sunday, when he declared that the central bank, had it "done its job properly" would have sent the Dow another 5,000 to 10,000 points higher, and that GDP growth would have been "well over 4%".

In essence, this is the president admitting that the Fed's only job is to push stocks higher, damn the deteriorating fundamentals that make leave valuations increasingly divorced from reality.

While this tweet will almost certainly elicit howls from economists warning about the damage Trump is doing to the Fed' precious 'credibility' (or whatever is left of it), we think it's refreshing to finally hear the most powerful man in the free world speak openly about its most powerful central bank.

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