“President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. should have the lowest interest rates in the world even as his handpicked chair for the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, faces renewed pressure to raise borrowing costs,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Trump: “We should be paying — the United States is so strong — we should be paying the lowest interest rate in the world, regardless of their formulas.”
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