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Trump's reported choice for next Fed chief revealed gold swaps to GATA ...
... and complained in the Wall Street Journal about policy makers 'suppressing market prices they don't like':
https://www.gata.org/node/7819
https://www.gata.org/node/10839
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Trump Is Reported Planning to Replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman with Former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh
By Bryan Mena and Elisabeth Buchwald
CNN, New York
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, April 18, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday again made clear his disdain for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, going so far as to say the central banker's "termination can't come fast enough" and saying in an Oval Office event that Powell will "be out of there real fast" if the president wants to replace him.
While many experts say the president does not in fact have the power to fire the Fed chief for policy differences, Trump has made clear he's willing to break with norms and precedent, even in the face of potentially monumental repercussions.
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Regardless, the leading contender to lead the U.S. central bank under Trump, whether at the end of Powell's term in May 2026 or earlier, reportedly appears to be Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor who previously was under consideration to be Trump's Treasury secretary for the president's second term and was a candidate for the top job at the Fed during Trump's first term. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-wants-fire-fed-chair-090036541.html
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