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The President Takes on the Fed

The President Takes on the Fed
The Federal Reserve headquarters is seen on Dec. 7, 2001 from Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. Manny Ceneta/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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President Trump has fired Lisa D. Cook from the board of governors of the Federal Reserve. Not a soul in the know believes that this one step is fundamentally disruptive to Fed policy or monetary stability or will have any meaningful impact on anything at all. And yet, within minutes after the letter came, it was the above-the-fold in every major news source in the world.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
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]
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