Can Trump Fire the Fed Chair? Some Legal Realism

Fed Chair Jerome Powell has tersely indicated that he won't resign if asked by the President and that he cannot be fired or demoted.

Powell, who was appointed by Trump in 2017, will end his term as the Federal Reserve's chairman in 2026.

Fed chair Jerome Powell is indicating he wouldn't go down without a fight if President-elect Donald Trump tries to remove him.

President-elect Donald Trump has sent mixed signals about whether he intends to fire or demote Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

The democratic mandate of the incoming Trump administration, along with Republican control of Congress and a confrontation of wills between ...

Can Trump Fire the Fed Chair? Some Legal Realism https://t.co/73W3VTTqJY It would also depend on the degree to which his fellow governors ...

President-elect Donald Trump has sent mixed signals for years on whether he would aim to fire or demote Fed Chair Jerome Powell when he ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell went viral on Thursday for his succinct answer to my question about whether he'd leave if ...

The Federal Reserve was designed to be independent from politics, but the president may have more influence over the central bank than you ...

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell has tersely indicated that he won't resign if asked by the President and that he cannot be fired or demoted.

Donald Trump and his allies have floated ideas suggesting that Federal Reserve independence could be compromised if the GOP nominee wins.

Jerome Powell was prepared to go to court when the president floated his dismissal six years ago. If it happens again, the Fed chair might ...

Dismissing Jerome Powell would be a serious breach of long-standing norms of central bank independence. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take ...

President Trump has made no secret of his dissatisfaction with the Federal Reserve, its chair, and the Fed's monetary policy.

Trump moved to dismiss the indictment based on Presidential immunity, arguing that a President has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution ...

“It has been widely recognized — and is a finding of economic research — that central bank independence is fundamental to achieving good policy ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point, the second reduction this year. A combination of strong data and Donald Trump's ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he would not leave his post if asked by President-elect Donald Trump as Fed officials unanimously ...

Its main selling point: Neither will be in charge. Palestinian officials from both factions, long bitter rivals, have reached a consensus to ...