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Byron Donalds: “Interest rates are price controls.”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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Byron Donalds Discusses Federal Reserve Policies and Economic Growth

Published | Video Starts at 01:18

We're very close to passing one big beautiful bill and then watch this economy take off. Why should central bank central planners have the power to control the speed at which the US Economy grows? I mean Interest rates are price controls. Shouldn't borrowers or lenders in the market set the rates? Fed Chair Powell keeps bringing up forecasts about Trump's trade tariffs. That's not happening yet. How about stabilizing the US Dollar to go on? (01:18–01:21)

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Asserts that interest rates function as price controls.

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