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...A common target of Trump’s missives was a then-fresh-faced Federal Reserve chair called Jerome Powell. Trump wanted Powell to cut rates, and wasn’t shy about saying it....
...That changed with Jimmy Carter....
...Letters in response to this article: Carter, not Volcker, caused the Fed’s 1980s U-turn / From Dan Thornton, Retired Vice-President and Economics Adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, Des Peres, MO...
...That sounds like a reasonable expectation to have after Fed Chair Jay Powell doubled down on his hawkish tone at Jackson Hole last week....
...Donald Trump In November 2017 Donald Trump decided to nominate Powell, a Republican and Fed governor at the time, to be chair, breaking a tradition that had lasted since Carter of new presidents reappointing...
...He had been brought up a Democrat — his parents were Roosevelt New Dealers — and was known to have voted for John Kennedy in 1960 and Jimmy Carter in 1976....
...Carter’s national security adviser....
...She worked in the administration of Jimmy Carter under then-national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and later joined the faculty at Georgetown before serving as a foreign policy adviser to several...
...Then in 1977, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to the new president Jimmy Carter, recruited her as his liaison to Capitol Hill....
...Fuel prices are particularly politically sensitive, as Carter found to his cost....
...It was Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, who sent inflation-slayer Paul Volcker to the Fed, which contributed to Carter’s 1980 defeat....
...Unlike Trump, who repeatedly singled out Powell for criticism, Biden has pledged to respect the Fed’s independence as it decides the best way to tackle inflation....
...For example, former Alphavillain Jamie Powell remained unconvinced (reposted with his permission). But Pozsar argues that, sometimes, being difficult is unavoidable....
...Inflation ended the presidencies of Ford and Carter....
...Mike Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor; Colin Powell, the former secretary of state; and Ted Kaufman, the former Delaware senator and his longtime friend, have all been considered candidates....
...More on Afghanistan: Edward Luce: This is potentially Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment. ‘Herat is now like a ghost city’: How Afghanistan’s third-largest city is adapting to Taliban rule....
...a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), today announced it has entered into definitive transaction agreements (the “Agreements”) with global icon, entrepreneur and MONOGRAM founder, Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter...
...Mr Grigg was replaced in the top job by former chief financial officer Simon Carter in November....
...Powell on Wednesday noted that one month of stellar job growth was “not enough”....
...Although high inflation has not reared its head for decades in America and has not been a factor since the 1970s, it dogged both incumbent presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter during that era, a worrying...
...Colin Powell, a retired four-star general and former secretary of state under George W Bush, also addressed the convention....
...However, a darkening macroeconomic outlook seems likely to weigh on demand for office space in the short term, according to chief financial officer Simon Carter....
...Jay Powell, the current Fed chairman, said in a statement that he was deeply saddened by Volcker’s death. “He believed there was no higher calling than public service....
...Volcker rose to the challenge soon after his nomination to be Fed chairman by Jimmy Carter in 1979....
...president has accused a host of countries of being currency manipulators and threatened to levy sanctions on them, and has repeatedly cited the dollar’s strength in a bid to put pressure on Fed chair Jay Powell...
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