We'll see.  But if it does happen, it will directly contradict the carefully crafted narrative about the economy that the Federal Reserve has been perpetuating all this time.  Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly insisted that the U.S. economy is in great shape even when there has been a tremendous amount of evidence indicating otherwise.  And of course President Trump has been repeatedly telling us that this is "the greatest economy in the history of our country", but now he is loudly calling for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as well.  Something doesn't seem to add up here.  If the U.S. economy really was "booming", there is no way that the Fed should cut interest rates.  Right now interest rates are already low by historical standards, and theoretically it is during the "boom" times that interest rates should be normalized.  But if the U.S. economy is actually slowing down and heading into a recession, then a rate cut would make perfect sense.  And if that is the reality of what we are facing, then the economic optimists have been proven dead wrong, and people like me that have been warning of an economic slowdown have been proven right.