Trump and Fed policy
Three Risks When Political Leaders Influence Monetary Policy
October 17, 2018
President Trump’s progressively blunt criticism of the Federal Reserve for a string of gradual interest rate hikes should surprise nobody. The president’s style of overturning institutions has taken him very far in politics. Criticizing Fed policy, even though the Chairman and two of the other current governors are his appointees, fits a pattern that has […] More
