President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could stoke extreme financial volatility again.
Jerome Powell has said that the Federal Reserve can be patient as the effects of tariffs become more clear. President Trump, pushing for interest rate cuts, said, “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, said that the central bank’s independence was “very widely understood and supported in Washington and in Congress.”
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair. In remarks on Wednesday, he laid out how the Fed would deal with a situation in which its goals for a healthy labor market as well as low and stable inflation clashed.