How Trump Is Sabotaging Himself on the Federal Reserve The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way. He’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day.

COLUMN: The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way, but he’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day, writes our economics correspondent Victoria Guida.

“Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss.”

How Trump Is Sabotaging Himself on the Federal Reserve The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way. He’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day.

President Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss.

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RORY MCILROY WINS THE 2026 MASTERS.

Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump That report gives the president some useful talking points as polling shows deep dissatisfaction with the state of the economy.

The "incredible zig-zagging employment situation" - my comments to @vtg2.bsky.social at @politico.com on Friday.

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After an extensive search, POLITICO announced today that Jonathan Greenberger will be the organization’s next Global Editor-in-Chief, effective May 1.
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Carney's Grand Ambition On Trade Does Not Include Trump Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.

COLUMN: U.S. trading partners are weighing boxing out Trump on trade, writes our @vtg2.bsky.social.

Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.

‘If The United States Wants To Retire ... Others Will Have To Take Over’ Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.

“I’ve seen the United States as a natural leader of the free world,“ former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told me. “But if the United States wants to retire from that role, then others will have to take over.”

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Fog of war clouds global rate cut outlook The specter of a prolonged energy crunch could dash the hopes of consumers, businesses and investors worldwide for rate cuts this year.

Fog of war clouds global rate cut outlook

"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

Happy 275th birthday, James Madison!

I wonder what Moo Deng is up to these days

Tillis ‘optimistic’ roadblock to Fed chair confirmation will be resolved

Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It President Donald Trump has taken one risk after another that could have destabilized the American economy. Iran is the latest crisis to test U.S. economic resilience.

I think we are finally seeing the limits of this gambling as described in this @vtg2.bsky.social piece from earlier. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It President Donald Trump has taken one risk after another that could have destabilized the American economy. Iran is the latest crisis to test U.S. economic resilience.

President Trump’s disruptive policies have left some dents, including serious damage to his approval rating, but by the biggest readings of its health, the U.S. economy largely keeps absorbing what he throws at it.

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Who pays the tariffs? Voters will soon find out The tariffs have proved unpopular in polling, so more attention on them might mean more electoral losses for Republicans in November.

The process and legal fights over paying back import taxes will help shove tariffs back into voters’ minds, as well as provide them an excruciatingly detailed civics lesson in who literally pays the levies. (Hint: it’s not foreign governments.)
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Thank you so much for saying that!

Hassett says Fed staff should be 'disciplined' for reporting the US pays tariff costs The Trump economic adviser called it “the worst paper I’ve ever seen in the history of the Federal Reserve System.”

Hassett says Fed staff should be 'disciplined' for reporting the US pays tariff costs

Thanks, Jim!

Thanks, Julia. It’s definitely people like you who are the draw to make me keep coming back here

It’s also hard because I spent so many years building trust with my followers on Twitter. Here I feel like a stranger

It just makes me so sad! Journalists should be accessible. We represent our readers, and I don’t like blocking and muting on principle

This is an extremely honest answer, and nothing but respect to this person for telling it like it is.

But…. 🙃

Yes, I’ve found Bluesky to have a much higher proportion of vicious responses (not just to me but in general) that also makes me hesitant to post here

Is it way too early to speculate about AOC's foreign/trade policy as president? Yes!

Is it fun to do it anyway? Absolutely!

Based on her remarks in Europe, I took a shot at it.

And even if you don't care what I had to say, you may still like the partial transcript I provided at the end.

Trump wants the Fed to cut rates. Kevin Warsh has bigger plans. Any turbulence that pushes up longer-term rates would clash with the president’s goal of cutting borrowing costs for the government and lowering mortgage rates.

Trump wants the Fed to cut rates. Kevin Warsh has bigger plans.

Trump wants the Fed to cut rates. Kevin Warsh has bigger plans. Any turbulence that pushes up longer-term rates would clash with the president’s goal of cutting borrowing costs for the government and lowering mortgage rates.

For more than a decade, Kevin Warsh has advocated reining in the Fed’s pivotal role in the nation’s financial markets.

Now, he may finally get the chance to do it. And Wall Street is obsessed with finding out what comes next.

w/ @samjsutton.bsky.social
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Bitcoin slides below $70,000 as silver drops 10%:
There is a palpable sense of forced deleveraging and margin calls rippling through the more speculative corners of the financial system.
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What Does Trump’s Next Fed Chief Really Believe? A childhood job at a racetrack taught Kevin Warsh more than he realized about how to amass power. If he’s confirmed as Fed chair, he’ll have to place his riskiest bet yet.

The odds seem stacked against Kevin Warsh, but the carefully crafted career path he has traveled up to this point suggests he is perhaps uniquely situated to pull off being Trump’s Fed chair

A portrait of him, by me & the very talented @ianwardreports.bsky.social
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Shorter Powell: the economy looks more boring and so we want to be boring too. Please, for the love of god, let us be boring.

Shutdown risk grows as Democrats revolt after Minneapolis shooting