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Amid an escalating campaign by the Trump administration against Federal Reserve Chair Powell, an AI-generated letter made its rounds online.
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,
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,
William Pulte, a political appointee with little housing policy experience, is using his federal post and massive social media following to attack the Federal Reserve chief—and grab Trump’s attention.
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.
President Trump floated the idea of firing Jerome Powell — whom he first appointed Federal Reserve chair — earlier this week, after years of on-and-off criticism over interest rates.
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,
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.
Wall Street cautions against firing Powell, Nvidia's geopolitical balancing act pays off, and banks score an 'A' from investors on Q2 earnings
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell is resisting President Donald Trump’s calls for lower interest rates, saying the Fed should not take debt and deficits into account.
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.