President Donald Trump pressed for lower interest rates shortly after the Federal Reserve announced its first hike in more than three years.
In a Sept. 16 Truth Social post, he repeated that the United States should have the lowest rates on the planet “because we are the best credit in the world,” adding that they should be set at 1 percent “or less.”
“Our Country is booming with new Investment!” Trump said on his social media platform. “If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year.”…