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Alan Blinder: A New Tactic in Trump’s War on the Fed


He can’t fire Powell, so he’s sending over dreadful nominees to make the chairman’s job harder. You might have noticed that President Trump is waging war on the Federal Reserve. That in itself is nothing new. In 1966, Lyndon Johnson invited Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin down to his Texas ranch to barbecue him. George H.W. Bush attacked

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Posted: July 15, 2019 Monday 07:08 PM