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I disagree. You can maybe delay the inevitable correction, but it is going to come. And after the sugar rush of easy credit ends, the headache will be that much worse.

Would it not be better to face some of that pain now?

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Sure, but it's also a matter of when. If you can delay it for a few decades, that's going to be enough for a lot of people to retire.

The US could just cut interest rates whenever the stock market goes down. There's no real limit to how low they can go, and as long as the investors understand that the Fed is backstopping them they'll contribute in pumping it up.

Not in an election year.

Trump will not let the recession occur, because he's so afraid of losing.

Maybe that is part of the problem. We imbue our leaders with a belief that their will alone is sufficient to stem the tide forgetting that they are only human.

This is the point of the Fed being independent - so that they can ignore Trump's tweets and do what they think the economy actually needs.

Now, they have recently done basically what Trump asks. Are they succumbing to Trump's pressure, or is Trump asking them to do what actually is the right thing?

They are independent, but not imune to pressure from a powerful person who doesn't recognize any boundaries to achieve his personal goals.

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