{"id":71756,"date":"2026-04-15T06:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trumps-push-to-cut-interest-rates-has-echoes-of-banana-republic-says-yellen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:50","slug":"trumps-push-to-cut-interest-rates-has-echoes-of-banana-republic-says-yellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trumps-push-to-cut-interest-rates-has-echoes-of-banana-republic-says-yellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s push to cut interest rates has echoes of \u2018banana republic\u2019, says Yellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Fed chair says lowering rates to reduce debt service cost can lead to inflation getting out of control<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/15\/stock-markets-iran-war-peace-deal-reeves-bessent-imf-business-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has attacked Donald Trump\u2019s push for lower interest rates, comparing it to the actions of a \u201cbanana republic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has repeatedly urged the central bank to slash interest rates, in the hope of cutting the government\u2019s borrowing costs on its $39tn (\u00a329tn) debt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/15\/donald-trump-cut-interest-rates-janet-yellen-us-inflation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Fed chair says lowering rates to reduce debt service cost can lead to inflation getting out of control Business live \u2013 latest updates The former US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has attacked Donald Trump\u2019s push for lower interest rates, comparing it to the actions of a \u201cbanana republic\u201d. The US president has &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s push to cut interest rates has echoes of \u2018banana republic\u2019, says Yellen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trumps-push-to-cut-interest-rates-has-echoes-of-banana-republic-says-yellen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s push to cut interest rates has echoes of \u2018banana republic\u2019, says Yellen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}