THE FED’S INTEREST RATE DELUSIONS: A House of Cards Built on Debt and Dissent

Washington’s Monetary Magicians Have Officially Lost the Script The Federal Reserve, America’s unelected priesthood of economic “stability,” has made its intentions clear: it’s not here to protect you, it’s here to protect the system. And when the system is built on sand, distraction becomes policy. At this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, a 9-2 vote kept the federal funds rate locked between 4.25% and 4.5%. That sounds technical—until you realize it’s a loaded gun pointed at every American wallet. While households are suffocating under record debt and wages stagnate beneath the weight of invisible inflation, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has once again chosen the coward’s route: “no decision about September.” Translation? They're holding the detonator and pretending it’s…