To keep his debt payments lower for himself, and to make us weaker causing more problems when the recession he has caused hits, and will make it last longer. He's desperately trying to make it look good when all signals show the opposite of his claims. He lies claiming we need them lower to help himself and not the country. Remember he's failed at about everything he's done, and has many, many times filed bankruptcy from his bad decisions.

So when you borrow, you pay less back than you borrowed (essentially getting paid to borrow).

Yeah, that will end well. But I guess as long as he can get the economy through 2020.

his many mortgages and other real estate loans. That drives his interest in the Fed, since what he pays is tied to rates set by that body.

And that's the bottom line. Trump lives on debt.

I was also thinking that the negative interest rate may also juice the housing market temporarily, leading to high prices where realators and property owners could cash in before the economy downturns. They could then turn around and use all the cash they made to purchase foreclosed property on the cheap.

Recession is coming.

They're doing everything they can to hold it off until after Nov 2020.

The economy is the only thing keeping him afloat.
If it goes in the toilet, Trump will get flushed with it.

they can clean up before the coming recession. I got a re-finance loan...but it was a tough loan-reminded me of 2008 and our house is worth more than twice what we paid for it...we took out a few dollars to put in our recession fund and lowered our payments. The principle is so low we are quadrupling the principal payment and taking years off the mortgage.