Elon Musk Calls For a 0.25% Fed Funds Rate Cut a Day After Inflation Data Spooked Market
Elon Musk Calls For a 0.25% Fed Funds Rate Cut a Day After Inflation Data Spooked Market
Tuesday's inflation data triggered a steep sell-off in equities and other financial assets.
周二的通胀数据引发了股票和其他金融资产的大幅抛售。
What Happened: Ahead of the August inflation report, Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood made an argument for an impending deflation through a series of tweets.
发生的事情：在8月份通胀报告出炉之前，方舟投资创始人凯西·伍德通过一系列推文为迫在眉睫的通货紧缩提出了论点。
To prove her point, she listed a number of commodities whose prices had significantly decreased from their pre-COVID levels. Lumber prices were down 60%, copper by 35%, oil by 35%, iron ore by 60%, DRAM by 46%, corn by 17%, Baltic freight rates by 79%, gold by 17%, and silver by 39%, she noted.
为了证明她的观点，她列举了一些商品，这些商品的价格比冠状病毒流行前的水平有了很大的下降。她指出，木材价格下跌了60%，铜下跌了35%，石油下跌了35%，铁矿石下跌了60%，德拉姆下跌了46%，玉米下跌了17%，波罗的海运费下跌了79%，黄金下跌了17%，白银下跌了39%。
$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ CEO Elon Musk chimed in with his thoughts on Wood's tweet. "Exactly, this is neither subtle nor secret," Musk tweeted.
$特斯拉 (TSLA.US)$首席执行官埃隆·马斯克附和了他对伍德的推文的看法。马斯克在推特上写道：“确实，这既不是微妙的，也不是秘密。”
Exactly, this is neither subtle nor secret
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2022
确实，这不是微妙的，也不是秘密的
-埃隆·马斯克(@elonmusk)2022年9月14日
Musk even has a solution for the predicament.
马斯克甚至有一个解决困境的办法。
When asked what the Fed should be doing, he said that it should decrease the fed funds rate by 25 basis points.
当被问及美联储应该采取什么行动时，他表示，美联储应该将联邦基金利率下调25个基点。
Drop 0.25%
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2022
下降0.25%
-埃隆·马斯克(@elonmusk)2022年9月14日
Why It's Important: Musk's statement comes a day after the U.S. released its consumer price inflation report for August, which showed a more-than-expected annual pace of 8.3%.
为什么它很重要：马斯克发表声明的前一天，美国发布了8月份消费者价格指数通胀报告，该报告显示，8月份消费者价格指数同比增长8.3%，高于预期。
The views of Wood and Musk were echoed by Empire Financial Research's Whitney Tilson.
伍德和马斯克的观点得到了帝国金融研究's 惠特尼·蒂尔森.
"I'm surprised the number wasn't lower, as extensive data and anecdotes show that inflation is falling fast. It makes me suspect that there's a lag effect in the data the Bureau of Labor Statistics is collecting," the analyst said in his daily newsletter.
这位分析师在他的每日时事通讯中表示：“我很惊讶这个数字没有降低，因为大量数据和轶事表明，通胀正在快速下降。这让我怀疑劳工统计局正在收集的数据存在滞后效应。”