In fact, there’s a long history of presidents putting pressure on Fed chiefs to cut interest rates. But President Trump’s ...

The era’s economic turmoil unnerved Americans. Mass-market best sellers such as The Late Great Planet Earth prophesied the ...

The president’s attacks on Powell could put a “shadow of suspicion” over whomever Trump picks as the next Fed chair.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again interest in firing Jerome Powell, whom he appointed in 2018, isn’t so much a policy decision as it is a necessary feature of post-truth populism. It comes from ...

US president Donald Trump has been increasingly calling for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, claiming that there ...