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I Think President Donald Trump Genuinely Wants to be an Agent of Chaos.
He is playing games with economic disaster.
As impossible as it might seem to some, the times we’re living in simply continue to get more and more surreal and dangerous. Obviously, thanks in large part to President Donald Trump, and of course all the coexisting, complexities that led to his rise.
They always somehow manage to top it, but it’s just so hard to imagine anything that they do shocking me at this point and frankly, as concerning and alarming as the recent news has been, I don’t find myself surprised in the slightest. This time, it involves Donald Trump and none other than Jerome Powell, chair of the federal reserve.
Colby Smith and Tony Romm with The New York Times write:
“President Trump on Thursday escalated his long-running attack on the Federal Reserve, by lashing out repeatedly at the head of the nation’s central bank, Jerome H. Powell, for not doing enough to fortify the economy as the effects of tariffs take hold.
Mr. Trump has long sought to exert control over the politically independent Fed, often denouncing Mr. Powell for keeping interest rates too high for his liking. In an early morning social media post that ricocheted around Washington, Wall Street and beyond, Mr. Trump…
