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Fueling speculation, Bill Pulte—chair of government-backed lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—claimed in a post on X that ...
President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying ...
A senior Trump administration official said Friday that Fed Chair Jerome Powell is “considering resigning” as pressure grows ...
New tariffs unveiled by President Trump have further muddied the inflation outlook, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee ...
The president’s attacks on the independence of the Federal Reserve could further harm the dollar’s status as the preeminent ...
Despite Trump’s vocal calls for lower interest rates and his public admonishments of current Fed chief Jerome Powell, the names rumored “all look like well-qualified candidates,” said Andrew Balls, ...
Trump considers naming Fed Chair replacement early to pressure rate cuts, with Kevin Warsh and Scott Bessent among top contenders for the position.
Two Republicans named Kevin—Kevin Hassett, one of President Trump’s closest economic advisers and Kevin Warsh, a former ...
The president hasn’t named a successor to Jerome H. Powell, but his insistence on someone who will lower interest rates has ...
There’s a great story on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today, called “Two Kevins Battle to Be Next Fed Chair in ...