 when they are making that decision the worst thing that they can actually do if they care about the general good of the economy is take any of that noise into account because if they actually think that the economy is slowing and is in danger of heading into recession it's far more significant than appeasing a political party you cut anyways because quite honestly like four years from now no one's going to remember exactly when you started cutting interest rates or raising them or this and that they are going to remember