Wendy Edelberg
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That's unpleasant, but I don't think that that's enough to get people to radically change their spending plans.
I think the way that the war is going to show up is through grindingly higher inflation that just comes more broadly.
But Edelberg says that's going to take a little time.
And I am mystified why the bond market didn't react.
And frankly, Trump is probably frustrated that the bond market didn't react if he's paying attention.
Short term treasury rates didn't budge today.
Markets don't think what Trump did ensures more rate cuts this year.
Well, so for example, futures markets imply an expectation of only 40 basis points of cuts in the Fed funds rate under the next chair's term.
So Trump's hand-chosen guy oversees not even two full cuts.
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So whatever Trump is selling with these attacks on the Fed, the market isn't buying it yet.
But when they do, I worry it will not be pretty.
Well, I have two guesses why the markets haven't woken up to what's going on.
So one, maybe markets assume that Trump's pick will get religion once in the position and prioritize Fed independence.