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White House Seeks to Inspect Fed Renovation in Bid to Pressure Powell
Russell T. Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, said he and other administration officials wanted access ...
Private equity billionaire David Rubenstein on Jerome Powell: He's done a very good job
In 1997, billionaire Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein hired a then-relatively unknown member of the George H.W. Bush ...
White House Suggests Jerome Powell May Have Broken Law Amid Trump Rift
The White House accuses the Fed chair of potentially "violating the law" in his renovation of the central bank's Washington, ...
Trump Wants Lower Rates. Firing Powell Could Push Them Higher.
Investors, not the Fed, control the interest rates that matter most to businesses and consumers. They might demand higher ...
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Scott 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 ...
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Hasset says firing Powell could be justified if there’s cause
His comments follow President Donald Trump’s intensified criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, accusing him of ...
Can Trump Fire Powell? He Likely Lacks a Case, Legal Experts Say.
The Trump administration is toying with removing Jerome H. Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, accusing him of ...
Trump’s attacks on the Fed are worse than you think
The Federal Reserve’s political independence — the sense that the world’s most powerful central bank makes decisions based on ...