Fed Rate Hikes vs. Economic Growth: A Closer Look #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]What he has is this notion, and this is out there as a conservative critique, I guess, right now. Maybe it's more from the Trump side than it is the conservative side, that if growth is high, that the Fed cut raises rates.

[00:00:14]That's not actually accurate. The Fed raises rates when it looks at growth as relative to potential and says there's a risk there of inflation, but it's really hard to find a situation where the Fed has really cut off growth too dramatically by by raising rates in the face of strong growth that wasn't accompanied by inflation.