Federal Reserve
The real threat to Fed independence isn’t Trump. It’s Congress’ debt addiction.
Concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week's decision to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But…
Fed governor Lisa Cook’s record is a reminder of 2020’s social justice insanity
President Donald Trump is attempting to fire Lisa Cook, one of the board members of the Federal Reserve. Mainstream commentators have described this as an unprecedented attack on the Fed's autonomy—no president has ever…
Will SCOTUS let Trump fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve?
President Donald Trump has purported to fire Lisa Cook from her position as a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Can he lawfully do that? Or, perhaps the better question to ask: Will the U.S. Supreme…
Is It Too Late To End the Fed?
This week, editors Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to break down Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's signals of an upcoming interest rate cut and President…
Fed comment sends Dow to new record
From Reuters, Dow notches record high as Wall Street cheers Powell’s speech. Apparently, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech today in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was widely interpreted as meaning interest rate cuts are…
What will Jerome Powell say in today’s Jackson Hole address?
Powell's last speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to give (what will probably be) his last address today in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, laying out how he believes the central bank should help manage the…
Trump administration deportations have reached 1,500 a per day in August
Trump's campaign promises, coming to fruition: "Until June, deportations had lagged behind immigration arrests and detentions," reports The New York Times. "By the first week of August, deportations…
Axiotic | Power Line
Yesterday Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte appeared for an entertaining interview on CNBC. CNBC has posted the related story as “Trump housing regulator Pulte says Fed’s Cook should resign or be fired,…
Trump’s rebate plan will push America toward a hyperprogressive tax code
President Donald Trump's tariffs are bad. But even if one were opposed to the tariffs on principle, they might be seduced by the revenue they generate and the potential of that revenue to make some progress toward…
How Trump firing Jerome Powell would affect the economy
President Donald Trump wants to lower interest rates to approximately zero, a change that could goose the economy in the short term but in the long term would lead to roaring inflation. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell…
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