The US government always has the American people/economy in a hostage situation. It just previously avoided the bad optics of pulling a gun at their head, just so most people don't know they're hostages. We also like to think that voting can affect freeing our hostage status.

Trump is literally pointing a gun at entire US economy and American people here. The federal reserve is also a supposed caretaker of American economy, although they have a bankster allegiance. Still there 2 very important reasons to raise rates right now.

1. it will actually lower 10+ year bond and mortgage interest rates. Gives fed credibility in its inflation mandate, which is too high.
2. Obscene US debt levels, and budget proposals to increase deficits with obscene/absurd military spending increases is causing a US currency devaluation, and low foreign appetite for US debt. Higher short term (all Fed controls) interest rates can stabilize this decline, again improving mortgage rates.

Housing prices are declining. Both mortgage rates and general inflation are factors. holding rates has made this worse. Lowering rates would collapse the US economy through skyrocketing bond/mortgage rates as a Fed credibility failure before Trump shoots the hostages.

in a hostage situation, one is not supposed to hold the gun to one’s own head.

What you meant by this is that he would damage his approval ratings by shooting the real hostages. As the end of the movie "The Beach" normal people should disapprove after just pointing the gun to their head, and a sane media would not still be humanizing him.

Dont correct your enemy when he makes a mistake.

Just do literally anything to get power out of his grubby hands already.

I'm convinced that's one of the reasons he got the job.

Even if media can't seem to press him on his decline/derangement (he is on a historic streak of this week surpassing the last week), it definitely should harrass all of his stooges, including those running for election in 2 months, on why they shouldn't impeach him now if cabinet is too cowardly to use 25th ammendment.

The USA would implode 3 days after trade with China ends (and current inventories are depleted). There is so much about American life that makes no fucking sense if there are no widgets to buy.

I don't think it will be one day. The collapse will be in slow mo' and affect more than we expect, but less than is fatally disastrous.

Please don't insult orange cats.

The problem is it is entirely his own dementia/senility that goes unfiltered, and everyone around him is just zeig heiling the fuhrer.