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.
週二的通脹數據引發了股票和其他金融資產的大幅拋售。
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.
發生的事情：在8月份通脹報告出爐之前，方舟投資創始人凱西·伍德通過一系列推文為迫在眉睫的通貨緊縮提出了論點。
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.
為了證明她的觀點，她列舉了一些商品，這些商品的價格比冠狀病毒流行前的水平有了很大的下降。她指出，木材價格下跌了60%，銅下跌了35%，石油下跌了35%，鐵礦石下跌了60%，德拉姆下跌了46%，玉米下跌了17%，波羅的海運費下跌了79%，黃金下跌了17%，白銀下跌了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.
$特斯拉 (TSLA.US)$首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克附和了他對伍德的推文的看法。馬斯克在推特上寫道：“確實，這既不是微妙的，也不是祕密。”
Exactly, this is neither subtle nor secret
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2022
確實，這不是微妙的，也不是祕密的
-埃隆·馬斯克(@elonmusk)2022年9月14日
Musk even has a solution for the predicament.
馬斯克甚至有一個解決困境的辦法。
When asked what the Fed should be doing, he said that it should decrease the fed funds rate by 25 basis points.
當被問及美聯儲應該採取什麼行動時，他表示，美聯儲應該將聯邦基金利率下調25個基點。
Drop 0.25%
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2022
下降0.25%
-埃隆·馬斯克(@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%.
為什麼它很重要：馬斯克發表聲明的前一天，美國發布了8月份消費者價格指數通脹報告，該報告顯示，8月份消費者價格指數同比增長8.3%，高於預期。
The views of Wood and Musk were echoed by Empire Financial Research's Whitney Tilson.
伍德和馬斯克的觀點得到了帝國金融研究's 惠特尼·蒂爾森.
"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.
這位分析師在他的每日時事通訊中表示：“我很驚訝這個數字沒有降低，因為大量數據和軼事表明，通脹正在快速下降。這讓我懷疑勞工統計局正在收集的數據存在滯後效應。”