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The escalating campaign by Donald Trump against the Federal Reserve chairman is unnerving the global economy. Ron Insana and Max Chafkin discuss on The 11th Hour.
Such a firing would potentially be illegal (as the Supreme Court recently noted) and undermine decades of goodwill that Fed policymakers have built up with investors. Trump quickly took the threat back,
Trump administration's dismissal of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter was overturned by a D.C. judge who cited the agency's century-old independence safeguards.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a new classification of non-career federal workers who can more easily be fired if they fail to carry out a president's priorities,
After the Senate passed Donald Trump‘s federal federal funding cuts to public media, Ken Burns worries for the future of documentary filmmaking. The 2x Oscar-nominated documentarian expressed his “state of shock” over the funding cuts’ impact on PBS,
Christopher Waller, a potential contender to be the next chair of the central bank, said the Federal Reserve should not wait for the labor market to weaken to reduce interest rates.
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The renewable industry accused the Interior Department of obstructing wind and solar projects for political reasons.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.