The Confrontation Between Trump and the Fed

The Confrontation Between Trump and the Fed
The Federal Reserve building in Washington, in a file photo. Adam Parent/Shutterstock
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The popular movement to question the Fed’s prowess in managing the nation’s money has grown for decades, with countless books and articles and mounting evidence that something has gone very wrong. With the Trump administration’s overt criticisms and even threats to fire the chairman, now dialed back, we have entered a new era.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]