President Trump said recently released employment data was positive and that the stock market should have risen, but longstanding concerns about inflation instead contributed to a decline. He argued that economic growth does not cause inflation and criticized policies that restrain expansion when economic performance improves. Trump said U.S. GDP growth should reach 15% or 20%, rather than 2%, 3% or 4%, and argued that the United States should have the world’s lowest interest rates. He said each one-percentage-point increase in rates costs the country $650 billion annually and that lower rates would ease the debt burden.