Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO and Chief Strategist at QI Research, joins Julia La Roche to break down the FOMC and discuss her open letter manifesto to the committee written on behalf of every hard-working American.
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Links:
Danielle's open letter: https://quillintelligence.com/2025/12/10/the-weekly-quill-open-letter-2/
Danielle's Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dimartinobooth
Substack: https://dimartinobooth.substack.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DanielleDiMartinoBoothQI
Fed Up: https://www.amazon.com/Fed-Up-Insiders-Federal-Reserve/dp/0735211655
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and welcome back Danielle
00:33 Reaction to FOMC
01:36 QE?
02:40 Markets are overreacting
02:59 Danielle's open letter to The Federal Open Market Committee
06:57 Kevin Hassett
08:45 How to preserve Fed independence
09:20 Every Hardworking American Who Wakes Up in the Morning Asking Themselves What Went Wrong
10:42 The Fed's conflicting mandates
12:25 The unprecedented level of dissent
15:04 Powell was passionately against QE back in 2012
17:21 The Fed could exert its independence
18:50 Markets think it's QE, but is it?
20:09 Powell
21:29 Fed policy is eviscerating the middle class
25:10 Labor market dynamics
30:12 Biggest fear - civil war without honest monetary policy
32:45 Call to action