When it seemed that Donald Trump, Republican candidate for re-election in November, had abandoned the battering rams of inflation and the border to attack the Democrats, wielding identity issues instead - the blackness of Kamala Harris - the collapse of the stock markets have returned to the economic field. In several messages published this Monday in Truth Social, the former president attacks the Democratic candidate with his usual cataract of capital letters, to exclusively attribute to her the day of panic due to the markets' supposed rejection of her candidacy. The magnate has baptized the day as “Kamala's crash”, a label that immediately became a trend on the social network X (formerly Twitter), owned by one of its best propagandists, Elon Musk, with 209,000 posts.
Trump's strange economic arguments to attack his rivals find their clearest expression in his promise to lower interest rates if elected, as he promised last Wednesday while the Federal Reserve kept the price of money unchanged. Even if he were elected, the Republican could not cut rates, which are set by the Fed, which is autonomous and competent in any monetary policy decision independently of the White House and, therefore, theoretically free of political pressure. Its president, Jerome Powell, has reiterated that politics will not play a role in the policy decisions of the monetary policy committee, but Trump's interference - it is hard to believe that he said this because he ignored the functioning of the central bank - worries many.
With less than 100 days until Election Day, NBC News spoke with nearly two dozen Republican and Democratic experts about their points about the race, following a series of historic events and how they see the final stretch. Almost all of them are watching an increasingly close race, a favorite, Trump, who is feeling that pressure, and a rival, Harris, who has yet to prove herself to the electorate. If Trump is trying to find his feet, it's because the ground has shifted under his feet over the course of about five weeks in June and July.
