Powell, Federal Reserve and Trump
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The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has made the removal of the Fed chair his personal mission.
President Donald Trump isn't really feuding with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, even though the press keeps saying he is. The claim that Powell helped the Democrats last year by cutting interest rates but now refuses to cut rates for Trump,
Amid an escalating campaign by the Trump administration against Federal Reserve Chair Powell, an AI-generated letter made its rounds online.
President Donald Trump isn’t really feuding with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, even though the press keeps saying he is. Feuds have two sides. Trump and his allies have launched one attack after another on Powell — calling him “ a moron ” and “ a political hack ,” threatening him with criminal prosecution — while he just takes it.
Did Jerome Powell write a July 22, 2025, letter informing President Donald Trump of his resignation as Chairman of the Federal Reserve? No, that's not true: A widely-shared screenshot of such a letter was in fact a fake,
In 1997, billionaire Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein hired a then-relatively unknown member of the George H.W. Bush administration named Jerome Powell. Over the course of eight years, Powell led the private equity firm's industrial group and was a partner.
President Donald Trump isn't really feuding with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, even though the press keeps saying he is. The claim that Powell helped the Democrats last year by cutting interest rates but now refuses to cut rates for Trump,
Stocks surged Friday after the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome H. Powell, said the central bank’s approach to monetary policy would remain flexible in the face of market turbulence and signs ...
President Trump is used to world leaders bowing down to him, and to cabinet members fawning over him. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, took a different approach.