Trump’s threat to Fed Fed president, Powell, could capture the economy even faster
Washington – The commercial war of President Donald Trump against all resources is already causing a recession, and his threat on Thursday to fire the president of the Federal Reserve Board is only worsening a bad situation, the economists warned.
“It would be a moment of ‘lunatic in charge of the moment of asylum,” said Justin Wolfers, professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, who predicted a shock for the system so large or even larger than his reaction to the new massive tariffs of Trump. “Bond yields will probably increase as much as they did last week: 25-50 basic points. The dollar would fall. The shares fall 6%.”
“The credibility of the Fed is the basis of the international faith in the dollar,” said Douglas Holtz-Eeakin, conservative economist and former head of the Congress Budget Office. “An attempt to say goodbye to Powell would make the consequences of the financial market of ‘Liberation Day’ look like the child’s game.”
White House assistants did not respond to News themezone’s consultations. Trump himself raised the idea of fire Powell at a social media post on Thursday morning attacking him for not reducing interest rates, even when his counterparts in the European Central Bank have done so.
“The ECB is expected to reduce interest rates for the seventh time and, nevertheless,” too late, “Jerome Powell of the Fed, which is always too late and incorrect, yesterday issued a report that was another and typical” smooth complete! “Petroleum prices are low, groceries (even eggs!) They are low, and the United States is becoming tariffs too late, it should have lowered interest rates, such as the ECB, a long time ago, but it should certainly reduce them now. Trump wrote, lie about supermarket and” low “egg prices.
During a photographic opportunity of the Oval office later in the day, Trump said he had the ability to expel Powell. “If I ask him to leave, he will be out of there,” Trump said. “If I want it, he will be out of there very fast, believe me.”
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Jason Furman, once the main economic advisor of the White House of Barack Obama and now Harvard economy professor, said the markets reacted when Trump simply alluded to fire Powell in 2019, during his first term, just one year after having named him for work, for not reducing interest rates as fast as Trump wanted.
“It would be a great, huge blow to the markets if Trump tries to shoot Powell,” Furman said. “In the first term you wears significant movements down and up even in indications of the possibility.”
Powell spoke extensively on Wednesday about uncertainty in global and American economies caused by new tariffs, which impose an import tax of 10% in most foreign goods, 25% in cars, aluminum and steel and 145% in China goods.
“These are fundamental changes in long -standing policies in the US. There is no real experience. The previous tariffs were not so strong and were 95 years ago,” he said in comments and a question and answers session in the Chicago Economic Club.
Powell even referred to the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day OFF”, in which a high school history teacher explains that the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs, instead of helping, sank the economy into the great depression.
Trump appointed Powell, a conventional conservative economist, as president of the Fed in 2017, and began his four -year term in 2018. Democratic president, Joe Biden, renamed him in 2022, which means that Powell should remain in office for another year and is, by law, immune to political interference. However, Trump has not been upset by laws and has repeatedly violated them in an attempt to take new powers.
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Mike Davis, a former Senate lawyer whose defense of the presidential authorities similar to dictators has won Trump’s ear, said Trump surely has the right to fire Powell. “If the president does not have the authority to say goodbye to the president of the Fed, the office is unconstitutional,” he said.
The United States Supreme Court can block a Trump attempt to fire Powell. But, he added, whatever the judges could take time to play, with the economy chateing in the meantime.
“But who knows what they would do. And regardless, it is not that it was resolved instantly,” Furman said.