Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

The fed is always late and here is why it matters #InterestRates

Name: The fed is always late and here is why it matters #InterestRates
Uploaded: 2025-08-07T18:04:14+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: A short excerpt from a Tom Burton YouTube video discussing U.S. Federal Reserve interest-rate policy. The speaker raises the question of how a…

7 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a Tom Burton YouTube video discussing U.S. Federal Reserve interest-rate policy. The speaker raises the question of how a quarter-point interest-rate reduction would affect debt payments, notes a historical pattern that "the Fed is always late" to both raising and lowering rates (claimed as a 40-year pattern), and cautions about currency effects — lowering rates could weaken the U.S. dollar, which was already described as "struggling" that week.

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We talk about it every week that we haven't done the math is what would a quarter point interest rate reduction due to the debt payment. Yeah, right. And so Taylor made answer to our question there. He said it would be great to see a move lower here in the short term. I don't see the harm in doing that. But as you know, the Fed is always late to raising and late to lowering. It's been that way for 40 years. But have to be careful because of currency implications can weaken the dollar quickly if we lower rates. Dollars already struggling this week.