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The escalating campaign by Donald Trump against the Federal Reserve chairman is unnerving the global economy. Ron Insana and Max Chafkin discuss on The 11th Hour.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday said the agency’s renovation of two of its buildings is in compliance with plans approved by a local commission, disputing a White House suggestion that they may have violated the law by deviating from those plans.
It isn’t just the U.S. Other countries have also come to expect an independent U.S. central bank.
“It’s by now widely agreed, almost all over the world: If you leave monetary policy in political hands, you’ll get too much inflation,” Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, told ABC News.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to escalate his attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a step investor call dangerous.
The yearslong project to spruce up central bank buildings in Washington, D.C., received little attention until recently
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CCN on MSNScott Bessent Confirms Quest for Jerome Powell’s Replacement Has Begun — Who Will Inherit the Federal Reserve?Jerome Powell has been the Federal Reserve Chair since February 2018. Trump nominated Powell in 2017, but now calls for him to resign. Bessent is