text:  Yeah, and they're still higher from two years ago as well, so that's really impacting the consumer. But the fact that inflation is starting to cool, that's giving the Fed a little bit of wiggle room to say, okay, maybe now we can step in and start cutting rates. Then it gets to the September debate versus the December debate, and the reason that we're not really sure right now is that the Fed likes to say that they're politically independent, that they don't pick one side or the other. I was just going to ask the question, what politics play into this?