Does he? He really wants the Feds to lower interest rates on top of everything else. He might have gotten that wish if he did absolutely nothing with economic policy and rode off the "bidenomics" he chastised for years.

There's definitely not 100% logic involved in his plans.

Inflation is a tax but if there is selective redistribution it is a selective tax.

> They care about inflation too though.

Trump cares about inflation as a talking point to get elected and for no other reason.

Any assessment of Trump’s actions that implies that he personally has a cogent strategy immediately loses credibility in my eyes. If you want to say the people around him think or feel a certain way and are influencing him based on that, fine. But he’s clearly just doing things that hit some nexus of “people around me say this will work” and “I personally, on a vibes basis, think this will be fun.”

> Trump is old enough to remember the high inflation 1970s well so he won't make that mistake.

He's already done it; he pioneered the strategy of sending out covid lockdown checks.

The money supply figure from his first term makes me doubt this very much.

I mean he's old enough to remember Biden's inflation, following his trillion dollar spending bills

If they cared about inflation they wouldn't have instituted massive inflation causing tarrifs. Economists are saying there is a chance 70s style stagflation might come back into fashion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/fed-offic...