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...Donald Trump said he wanted to replace Jay Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, accusing him of being “political” and predicting that he would cut interest rates to “help the Democrats” this year....
...Moore reckons frontrunners would include Shelton, Kevin Warsh of the Hoover Institution or perhaps Arthur Laffer of Laffer curve fame. A chat with Shelton gives a flavour of the debates to come....
...While the ability of a single Fed governor to shape or disrupt policy is limited, she still could have been a thorn in the side of Jay Powell, the Fed chairman, as he tried to set monetary policy and implement...
...But she could nonetheless be a thorn in the side of Jay Powell, the Fed chair, as he tries to steer the economic response to the coronavirus pandemic, including a dovish monetary policy and decisions on...
...“These nominations are important because if Trump is re-elected, any sitting Fed governors that he chose in his first term would logically be among the top candidates to replace [Jay] Powell,” Ian Katz of...
...For context, that’s five times the valuation set by the $200m investment led by Blackstone, with a star-studded list of stakeholders, including Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z....
...The position was left open after the US Senate blocked confirmation of Judy Shelton, a fierce critic of the central bank....
...Jay Powell, the current Fed chair, has made mistakes — notably by trying to raise interest rates too quickly. But he has, overall, been a good choice....
...Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Judy Shelton to the Fed board is faltering....
...Her criticisms echo those of Mr Trump himself, who has frequently attacked the Fed and its chairman Jay Powell — whom he nominated — for keeping interest rates too high....
...A hearing will also be heard on two of Donald Trump’s nominations for the Fed’s board of governors, Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller, on Thursday....
...She also said that the Fed should continue to reduce its balance sheet below the $3.5tn target set by Jay Powell, the chairman. “I would rather the Fed be less of an entity....
...And in the hours after Governor Jay Nixon imposed a night-time curfew on the Missouri town of Ferguson following the killing there of an unarmed teenager by a police officer earlier this month, it is indeed...
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