Summary

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell asserts that he cannot be fired by President-elect Donald Trump, citing legal protections under the Federal Reserve Act.

Trump has previously expressed his desire to remove Powell, but legal experts argue that a policy disagreement would not constitute “for cause” removal.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    “Legal protections” lmao

    These fucking idiots. He doesn’t care. He never has. He never will. And this round, he’s got shitloads of people waiting in the wings to kneecap and bleed out the bureaucracy that’s designed to protect normal people and important positions that need to be isolated from politics by their very nature. This time he’s gotten people to look up the blueprints and they’re going for the weak points. And there’s going to be paramilitary.

    “Price is right” rules: call how long it takes Powell to become a political prisoner, at best. I’m gonna say 17 months.