The file photo of US President Donald Trump as President during the first term of US Federal Reserve Chief Jerome Powell Trump. Photo Credit: Reuters
Donald Trump’s boiled dissatisfaction with the US Federal Reserve boiled this week, the President threatened to take unprecedented steps to exclude the head of the independent Central Bank.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants to cut rates to help encourage economic growth now because he rolls his tariff plans, and threatened to fed the fed chair Jerome Powell. If he does not comply, he does not comply, the bank and the White House in the course of collision, which analysts can volatile American financial markets.
“If I want him out, he will be out of there, I believe,” Mr. Trump said on Thursday, referring to Mr. Powell, the second four -year term ends in May 2026 as a Fed Chair.
Mr. Powell has said that he has no plans to step up early, saying that he considers the bank’s freedom on monetary policy as a “case of law”.
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“Clearly, the fed chairman feels that he has to address that he is serious,” said KPMG chief economist Dianek Dianek. AFPReferring to White House.
Stephanie Roth, the chief economist at Wolf Research, said he feels “he would come into the struggle,” but doesn’t think “Fed is going to bow down to political pressure.”
Most economists agree that the administration’s tariff schemes – which includes 10% “baseline” rate on imports of most countries – will put pressure upwards on prices and cool economic growth, at least in short -term.
This will keep inflation well away from the long -term target of the Fed of 2%, and possibly prevent policy makers from cutting rates in the next few months.
Ms. Roth said in an interview, “They are not going to react because Trump posted that she should harvest,” in an interview, saying that doing so would be “a recipe for a disaster” for the US economy.
Fed freedom ‘absolutely important’
Many legal scholars say that the US President does not have the power to set fire to the Fed Chair or any of his colleagues in the bank’s 19-person rate-development committee for any reason.
The Fed System created more than a century ago is also designed to insulating the American central bank with political intervention.
“Absolutely important for the Freedom Fed,” said Ms. Roth. “Countries where independent central banks do not have currencies especially weak and interest rates that are especially higher.”
Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, told AFP “We have strong evidence that the Central Bank freedom is a very bad idea.”
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‘Bond cannot control market’
A serious threat to Fed’s freedom comes from an ongoing case to indicate the Trump administration that it would try to challenge the Supreme Court’s decision of the 1935, which deprives the US President’s right to set the heads of independent government agencies on fire.
In this case the fed can have serious effects, given their position as an independent agency, whose leadership believes that he cannot be exhaled by the President for any reason but the reason.
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But even if the Trump administration is successful in the court, it may soon run in the last railings of Fed Independence: The Bond Markets.
During the recent market unrest by Mr. Trump’s tariff schemes, the US government bond yields increased and the dollar fell, indicating that investors could not see the United States as a safe shelter investment once.
With a sharp increase in American Treasury yields, the Trump administration stopped its plans for high tariffs against dozens of countries, a step that helped to calm the financial markets.
If investors believe that Fed’s freedom was compromised to deal with inflation, it would probably carry forward yields on long -term government bonds on this notion that long -term inflation would be high, and will put pressure on the administration.
“You can’t control the bond market. And this is the moral of the story,” said Ms. Swonk. “And that’s why you want an independent fed.”
Published – 19 April, 2025 11:51 am IST
