The Latest: Economist laments Trump’s calling Powell ‘enemy’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (all times local):
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David Jones, a leading historian of the Federal Reserve, says he thinks President Donald Trump’s reference Friday to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as an “enemy” set an unfortunate precedent.
“This challenges something that has been sacred in the history of the world’s most successful central bank,” said Jones, an economist an author of four
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