{"id":12853614,"date":"2026-01-13T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12853614"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:22:56","slug":"the-candor-of-jerome-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/01\/13\/the-candor-of-jerome-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Candor of Jerome Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Candor of Jerome Powell<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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After months of stoicism, the Fed chair is taking a stand against Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Jerome Powell isn\u2019t known for his expressiveness. The chair of the Federal Reserve has kept quiet over the past year as President Trump has repeatedly attacked him\u2014often with crude language (think\u00a0moron<\/i>,\u00a0numbskull<\/i>,\u00a0dumb<\/i>, and\u00a0loser<\/i>). That changed yesterday, when Powell announced that he is under criminal investigation by Trump\u2019s Justice Department. In a\u00a0video statement<\/a>, he responded to the threat of indictment with remarkable clarity. \u201cThis unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration’s threats and ongoing pressure,\u201d he said. \u201cThe threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Candor of Jerome Powell After months of stoicism, the Fed chair is taking a stand against Trump. By\u00a0Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic Jerome Powell isn\u2019t known for his expressiveness. The chair of the Federal Reserve has kept quiet over the past year as President Trump has repeatedly attacked him\u2014often with crude language (think\u00a0moron,\u00a0numbskull,\u00a0dumb, and\u00a0loser). That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12853615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26922,21,1,12,25391],"tags":[371],"class_list":{"0":"post-12853614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-market-news","8":"category-available","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-phils-favorites","11":"category-members-corner","12":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12853614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12853616,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853614\/revisions\/12853616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12853615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12853614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12853614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12853614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}