According to a Tuesday report from Politico, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn is President Trump’s leading candidate to succeed Janet Yellen as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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Posts tagged with 'Federal Reserve'
World View: Fed Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen Says ‘No Financial Crisis in Our Lifetimes’
Contents: Fed Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen says ‘no financial crisis in our lifetimes’; Examining the stock market bubble; Remembering Alan Greenspan as Fed Chairman; Remembering Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman
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Even As Stocks Push Higher, Clouds Gather For The U.S. Economy
Data points toward lower economic growth.
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Fed Hikes Interest Rates for Fourth Time Since Financial Crisis
Fed rate raise signals cautious optimism about economic stability.
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BOOM! Atlanta Fed Sees GDP Growing At More Than 4% In Second Quarter
The Atlanta Fed’s nowcast rose to 4.1 percent.
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Americans Owe $1 Trillion in Credit Card Debt Due to Rising Interest Rates
Americans owe a whopping $1 trillion in credit card debt thanks to rising interest rates, according to data from the Federal Reserve.
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Trump Says He Likes Janet Yellen and Supports the Export-Import Bank
The possibility that Trump may support the status quo at the Fed has some supporters scratching their heads. On Wall Street, this is widely viewed as the result of the influence of Gary Cohn and other financiers on the president.
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Peter Schweizer: White House Democrats Serve Wall Street ‘at the Expense of Main Street’
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of the best-selling book Clinton Cash, appeared on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to give a status report on President Trump’s efforts to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption.
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The Fed Will Give Trump Room to Run
Far from worrying that the economy is in danger of overheating, the minutes make it clear that Fed officials see the risks to economic growth as “tilted to the downside.”
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Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker Resigns Over Leak of Confidential Information
“I deeply regret the role I may have played in confirming this confidential information and its dissemination,” Lacker said.
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