Professor at Northwestern University. Teach finance at UC-Booth. Former Economist and Senior Policy Advisor at Federal Reserve and Professor at UMich and Yale.
Is this 4-deminsional chess?...
Trump says cut rates --> fed raises rates instead--> enhances market belief in Fed independence --> bond market is relieved and lowers term premium and inflation expectations --> and Fed requires fewer rate hikes than they would otherwise need and financial conditions ease
Or
Blind rage at an independent agency?
it's a Rorschach Test!