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Related: About this forumTrump says he will demand lower interest rates immediately
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would demand that interest rates drop immediately, and that other countries should follow suit.
"With oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately, and likewise they should be dropping all over the world," Trump told the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-demand-lower-interest-163214070.html
King Canute demands the tide recede...

sakabatou
(43,905 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,388 posts)Aristus
(69,035 posts)He allegedly told the tide to come no further as a way of showing his obsequious courtiers that he did not have godlike powers.
Cnut was known to be a wise and conscientious ruler.
Trump, not so much.
Demand away, dickhead
OLDMDDEM
(2,262 posts)bucolic_frolic
(48,496 posts)tanyev
(45,284 posts)
John1956PA
(3,656 posts)Seriously, if someone had presented this to me and said that Borowitz wrote it, I would have chuckled and said, "Another good one from Andy."
It is getting impossible to distinguish reality from satire.
modrepub
(3,704 posts)Last time I filled up. $3.099 is more than $2.999 still, right?!? Or did he EO basic math also?
Klarkashton
(2,818 posts)Else is fake news.
boonecreek
(486 posts)has 87 octane for 3.39 which I believe is about a .25
jump from last Friday. Meanwhile, the BP in Genoa City, WI
just across the state line has it for 2.99. This is according
to Gas Buddy which relies on reports from their users
so who knows?
Simeon Salus
(1,383 posts)Illinois regularly runs 25 to 40¢ higher per gallon, but we have, ya know, good county roads, great park districts, and other fancy stuff.
Zorro
(16,794 posts)Since according to him the cost of oil has gone down