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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 ...
Firing Powell would do nothing to help Trump on interest rates
For a moment on Wednesday, it looked like President Donald Trump would finally attempt the improbable and fire Federal ...
Fed Gov. Waller Makes the Case for Cutting Interest Rates in 2 Weeks
The speech comes as President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on the Fed to lower borrowing costs. Trump has repeatedly ...
What’s behind the Trump-Powell clash
Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in ...
Why Powell is ignoring Trump’s push to quickly slash interest rates
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell is resisting President Donald Trump’s calls for lower interest rates, saying the Fed ...
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It Will Take More than Low Interest Rates to Make Houses Affordable
If Trump allies really wanted to see homes become more affordable, he would push for less monetary inflation and for lower ...
White House ramps up pressure on Fed's Powell three weeks before next interest rate decision
President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates ...
Fed Rate Cut Expected in September Amid Trump-Powell Feud
Traders are growing increasingly confident that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September amid the public feud between President Donald Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The market ...
Why the White House is attacking Powell over the ‘Taj Mahal on the National Mall’
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is under fire from the White House, which accuses him of bungling a yearslong renovation ...