{"id":236787,"date":"2025-09-18T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:44:11","slug":"big-short-investor-steve-eisman-predicts-little-impact-from-rate-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236787\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Short&#8217; Investor Steve Eisman Predicts Little Impact From Rate Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famous for spotting one of the darkest trends in market history, Steve Eisman is feeling a bit more upbeat these days. <\/p>\n<p>Eisman rose to fame after <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-debt-trump-tax-bill-big-short-steve-eisman-treasurys-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shorting<\/a> the US housing market prior to the 2008 crash. He recently shared his takes on several market trends, including the recent <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fed-cuts-interest-rates-decision-jerome-powell-2025-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">interest rate cut<\/a> and booming AI market.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2025\/09\/18\/big-short-investor-steve-eisman-the-most-the-fed-will-cut-in-the-end-is-100-bps-total.html\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">CNBC<\/a> after Wednesday&#8217;s rate-cut decision from the Fed, Eisman said he thinks the central bank&#8217;s latest cutting cycle will be short-lived. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I think the most that the Fed&#8217;s going to cut interest rates by is 100 basis points total and then that&#8217;s it,&#8221; he said. He added that he doesn&#8217;t see the latest round of monetary easing as a game-changer for investors.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 100 basis points of cuts beginning with this week&#8217;s move would mirror the Fed&#8217;s previous rate-cutting cycle that ended in December 2024. <\/p>\n<p>While Eisman predicts that lowering rates is likely to spur some activity in the housing market, he said that he doesn&#8217;t think it will unlock the previously <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/housing-market-outlook-mortgage-rates-today-30-year-fixed-affordability-2025-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">frozen market<\/a>, a perspective <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fed-rate-cut-decision-market-impact-stock-picks-sp500-2025-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shared<\/a> by other experts.<\/p>\n<p>While the rate cuts might be a bit of a dud for markets, he thinks the main event is still going strong, and that&#8217;s AI. He described the booming tech as the biggest story for the market right now and credited it with driving both stock movement and the broader economy.<\/p>\n<p>                      Related stories<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the most important thing that I focus on right now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Eisman noted that he views the rise of AI hardware as the most significant development, and added that he&#8217;s very interested in power sources for AI firms. While he acknowledged that it may be too early to properly assess the fast-growing industry, Eisman cited nuclear energy as one area he follows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you told me 10 years ago we&#8217;d be talking about nuclear anything, I think it&#8217;d be pretty shocking,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The power part of the story is very exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famous for spotting one of the darkest trends in market history, Steve Eisman is feeling a bit more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-236787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115226310826500257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}