[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @NickTimiraos Nick Timiraos The Federal Reserve's independence is under scrutiny as President Trump challenges its autonomy, with concerns raised by current and former officials, including every living former Fed chair. The Supreme Court recently allowed Fed Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her job, potentially impacting Trump's efforts to reshape the central bank. The Fed's decision-making and potential rate cuts are being closely watched amid economic uncertainty. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::59603406/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +25% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +3.20% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +40% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::59603406/posts_active)  - X Week XX no change - X Month XXX -XXXX% - X Months XXX +17% - X Year XXXXX +54% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::59603406/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.38% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.70% - X Months XXXXXXX +8% - X Year XXXXXXX +19% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::59603406/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::59603406/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [fed](/topic/fed) #85, [inflation](/topic/inflation) #788, [over the](/topic/over-the) 0.56%, [anna](/topic/anna) #1967, [rates](/topic/rates) #132, [fomc](/topic/fomc) 0.37%, [bessent](/topic/bessent) #109, [federal reserve](/topic/federal-reserve) #26, [milton](/topic/milton) 0.19%, [mortgage rate](/topic/mortgage-rate) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@rev_cap](/creator/undefined) [@stevehou0](/creator/undefined) [@warrenpies](/creator/undefined) [@texasrunnerdfw](/creator/undefined) [@jchengwsj](/creator/undefined) [@txmctrades](/creator/undefined) [@howardaulsbrook](/creator/undefined) [@tdgraff](/creator/undefined) [@blacklioncta](/creator/undefined) [@carnivoretradrz](/creator/undefined) [@recliningdragon](/creator/undefined) [@d1ddy](/creator/undefined) [@rem26020](/creator/undefined) [@sixnein](/creator/undefined) [@scotusa3014](/creator/undefined) [@altacct2334](/creator/undefined) [@ciovaccocapital](/creator/undefined) [@dannydayan5](/creator/undefined) [@alexsjacquez](/creator/undefined) [@schwartzbwsj](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::59603406/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "New York Fed President John Williams calls out what he sees as a false dichotomy in monetary policy discourse by dismissing efforts to cast the use of QE or forward guidance as "unconventional": "This narrow understanding of monetary policy is alien to the history of monetary economics and central bank practice. A reading of Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartzs pathbreaking history of the Federal Reserve during the Great Depression dispels the notion that monetary policy is limited to setting the short-term rate and instead emphasizes broader measures of liquidity and longer-term interest" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1974142048727908831) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-03T15:58Z 441.6K followers, 326.5K engagements "Either an outlier or a leading indicator that lower mortgage rates are arresting the recent softness in home prices: ICE Mortgage Monitor: "In Sept. XX% of markets saw price increases the highest share in nine months while only XX% declined down from XX% two months ago."" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1975193390225747974) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-06T13:36Z 441.6K followers, 96.6K engagements "From the September FOMC minutes: Most judged that it likely would be appropriate to ease policy further over the remainder of this year. Also of note: *The minutes indicate there may have been more support for no cut than for a half point cut. *Nothing that indicated near-term urgency to change balance sheet runoff" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1975985107799249356) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-08T18:02Z 441.6K followers, 180K engagements "The WSJ survey of economists asked which of the XX publicly floated Fed chair candidates (plus Bessent and Miran) should be the pick. The top choices from the economists: X. Chris Waller X. Jim Bullard X. Lorie Logan The survey also asked who is most likely to get the job: X. Kevin Hassett X. Kevin Warsh X. Chris Waller" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1978198932833341945) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-14T20:39Z 441.6K followers, 95K engagements "Chinas leader Xi Jinping is betting that the U.S. economy cant absorb a prolonged trade conflict with the worlds second-largest economy @Lingling_Wei @GavinBade" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1978301583772324187) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-15T03:27Z 441.6K followers, 279.1K engagements "Fed divisions over the near-term policy path usually fade as incoming data reconciles disagreements. But an extended shutdown means a prolonged data blackout. One irony: Trump and allies want bigger cuts but the blackout robs the Fed of the jobs data needed to justify them" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1978885536098943181) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-16T18:07Z 441.6K followers, 57.6K engagements "Fed governor Chris Waller issues a two-word statement today upon the Fed revoking the climate-related financial-risk-management principles he opposed issuing in 2022: "Good riddance."" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1978898741689012605) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-16T19:00Z 441.6K followers, 216.3K engagements "This marks the third time the Powell Fed has embarked on cutting without the economy facing an obvious downturn. But the stakes differ from 2019 and 2024 given both the inflation profile (stickier) and the politics (a confrontational White House) The goal is something akin to 1995-96 but the risks are 1967 (inflation) or 1990 2001 2007 (recession)" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1968499985567084656) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-09-18T02:19Z 441.6K followers, 103.5K engagements "Martn Redrado the Argentine central bank head that Kirchner fired in 2010 warns in the FT about the dangers facing the Federal Reserve and U.S. economy as Trump challenges the Fed's autonomy" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1975946923811942429) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-08T15:30Z 441.6K followers, 67.3K engagements "Kevin Warsh on his former colleagues brief to the Supreme Court: I did not know that senior economic officials at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve expertise went all the way to constitutional jurisprudence" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1976044553703715243) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-08T21:58Z 441.6K followers, 177.1K engagements "Powell indicated on Tuesday that the kind of funding pressures becoming evident in overnight lending markets would set up the likely end of QT in coming months because officials don't want to find out where the steeper part of the reserve-demand curve sits. But it's worth noting that Miki Bowman the vice chair for bank supervision just a few weeks ago endorsed revamping the Fed's operating framework so that the types of funding pressures seen this week would not be unusual per se. From her speech on Sept. 26: Over the longer run my preference is to maintain the smallest balance sheet possible" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1979196136129720733) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-17T14:41Z 441.6K followers, 322.4K engagements "How should the Fed think about recent funding market signals. These paragraphs from Lorie Logan's most recent balance-sheet speech (in August) seem relevant now. Especially these sentences: "To get back to the long-run demand curve for reserves central banks need to bring the average level of market rates up closer to interest on reserves in a sustained way. Moving the average level up closer to interest on reserves also requires some tolerance for temporary modest moves above interest on reserves."" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1979224713407746337) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-17T16:35Z 441.6K followers, 92K engagements "This is going to be an interesting meeting to see how Powell threads the needlevia the consensus-oriented policy statementat a time when disagreements over the rate outlook are more stark. Would-be Fed dissenters face their own dilemma: A dissent makes a big statement (especially if there's several) but dissenters potentially surrender influence over the market-moving FOMC statement. This institutional practice was captured by then-Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren during a contentious 2011 meeting where three officials opposed the majoritys decision to provide more economic stimulus. He" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1968255563478741224) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-09-17T10:07Z 441.3K followers, 230.9K engagements "President Trump posts a drawing of himself firing Fed Chair Jay Powell" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1972015874019373262) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-09-27T19:09Z 441.4K followers, 436.4K engagements "Core PCE inflation is beginning to look no better and by some measures worse than where it was when the Fed started to cut last year Core PCE was XXX% using a 3-month annualized rate in June (the year-ago figure was 2.3%) It was XXX% using a 6-month annualized rate (the year-ago figure was 3.3%) It was XXX% over XX months compared to XXX% in the year-ago period" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1950902690399068276) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-07-31T12:53Z 441.6K followers, 195.6K engagements "NEW: Every living former Fed chair (Greenspan Bernanke Yellen) . have joined several former Treasury secretaries (Rubin Summers Paulson Geithner Lew) . and CEA chairs (Hubbard Mankiw Romer Furman Rouse Bernstein) who served presidents of both parties . in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court warning a ruling against Lisa Cook's ability to stay in her job would significantly erode Fed independence" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1971214605662982525) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-09-25T14:06Z 441.6K followers, 978.5K engagements "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent describes the Argentine peso as undervalued after the U.S. intervened in currency markets to buy the peso" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1976625498579984462) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-10T12:26Z 441.6K followers, 92.3K engagements "The BLS will release the September CPI report on Oct. XX. Furloughed workers at the statistical agency are being called back to work to produce the report because the September figure is used for the annual Social Security cost of living adjustment" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1976730754403983696) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-10T19:25Z 441.6K followers, 100.6K engagements "You might like this -- paper presented at Jackson Hole three years ago essentially argues that when you supply more bank reserves to the system via QE the banking system adapts in ways to want to keep more of those reserves which creates a big asymmetry of course" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1978160136821919780) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-14T18:05Z 441.6K followers, 6124 engagements "Fed governor Stephen Miran says hes supportive of bringing QT to a stopping point along the lines of what Powell hinted at on Tuesday: I dont know what the market benefit of additional reductions from here are" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1978511136011043143) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-15T17:19Z 441.6K followers, 58K engagements "@88_Converse" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1979400958443430195) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-18T04:15Z 441.6K followers, 1740 engagements "Anna Paulson the new president of the Philly Fed is in the camp of Fed officials that believes the economy is not overheated in a way that would allow one-time increases in prices from tariffs to nourish meaningful inflation Paulson also flags risks that the AI stock boom could be masking weak-ish underlying demand" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1977783668388061398) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-13T17:09Z 441.6K followers, 63.5K engagements "People will talk about the Shohei Ohtani game for years and years. The only question is if people will say which one because every time he does something you thought youd never see he does something else you thought wed never see" [X Link](https://x.com/NickTimiraos/status/1979625702111764504) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) 2025-10-18T19:08Z 441.6K followers, 162.5K engagements
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@NickTimiraos Nick Timiraos
The Federal Reserve's independence is under scrutiny as President Trump challenges its autonomy, with concerns raised by current and former officials, including every living former Fed chair. The Supreme Court recently allowed Fed Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her job, potentially impacting Trump's efforts to reshape the central bank. The Fed's decision-making and potential rate cuts are being closely watched amid economic uncertainty.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX +25%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +3.20%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +40%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX no change
- X Month XXX -XXXX%
- X Months XXX +17%
- X Year XXXXX +54%
Followers: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +0.38%
- X Month XXXXXXX +0.70%
- X Months XXXXXXX +8%
- X Year XXXXXXX +19%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance XXXX% currencies XXXX% countries XXXX%
Social topic influence fed #85, inflation #788, over the 0.56%, anna #1967, rates #132, fomc 0.37%, bessent #109, federal reserve #26, milton 0.19%, mortgage rate XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @rev_cap @stevehou0 @warrenpies @texasrunnerdfw @jchengwsj @txmctrades @howardaulsbrook @tdgraff @blacklioncta @carnivoretradrz @recliningdragon @d1ddy @rem26020 @sixnein @scotusa3014 @altacct2334 @ciovaccocapital @dannydayan5 @alexsjacquez @schwartzbwsj
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"New York Fed President John Williams calls out what he sees as a false dichotomy in monetary policy discourse by dismissing efforts to cast the use of QE or forward guidance as "unconventional": "This narrow understanding of monetary policy is alien to the history of monetary economics and central bank practice. A reading of Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartzs pathbreaking history of the Federal Reserve during the Great Depression dispels the notion that monetary policy is limited to setting the short-term rate and instead emphasizes broader measures of liquidity and longer-term interest"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-03T15:58Z 441.6K followers, 326.5K engagements
"Either an outlier or a leading indicator that lower mortgage rates are arresting the recent softness in home prices: ICE Mortgage Monitor: "In Sept. XX% of markets saw price increases the highest share in nine months while only XX% declined down from XX% two months ago.""
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-06T13:36Z 441.6K followers, 96.6K engagements
"From the September FOMC minutes: Most judged that it likely would be appropriate to ease policy further over the remainder of this year. Also of note: *The minutes indicate there may have been more support for no cut than for a half point cut. *Nothing that indicated near-term urgency to change balance sheet runoff"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-08T18:02Z 441.6K followers, 180K engagements
"The WSJ survey of economists asked which of the XX publicly floated Fed chair candidates (plus Bessent and Miran) should be the pick. The top choices from the economists: X. Chris Waller X. Jim Bullard X. Lorie Logan The survey also asked who is most likely to get the job: X. Kevin Hassett X. Kevin Warsh X. Chris Waller"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-14T20:39Z 441.6K followers, 95K engagements
"Chinas leader Xi Jinping is betting that the U.S. economy cant absorb a prolonged trade conflict with the worlds second-largest economy @Lingling_Wei @GavinBade"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-15T03:27Z 441.6K followers, 279.1K engagements
"Fed divisions over the near-term policy path usually fade as incoming data reconciles disagreements. But an extended shutdown means a prolonged data blackout. One irony: Trump and allies want bigger cuts but the blackout robs the Fed of the jobs data needed to justify them"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-16T18:07Z 441.6K followers, 57.6K engagements
"Fed governor Chris Waller issues a two-word statement today upon the Fed revoking the climate-related financial-risk-management principles he opposed issuing in 2022: "Good riddance.""
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-16T19:00Z 441.6K followers, 216.3K engagements
"This marks the third time the Powell Fed has embarked on cutting without the economy facing an obvious downturn. But the stakes differ from 2019 and 2024 given both the inflation profile (stickier) and the politics (a confrontational White House) The goal is something akin to 1995-96 but the risks are 1967 (inflation) or 1990 2001 2007 (recession)"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-09-18T02:19Z 441.6K followers, 103.5K engagements
"Martn Redrado the Argentine central bank head that Kirchner fired in 2010 warns in the FT about the dangers facing the Federal Reserve and U.S. economy as Trump challenges the Fed's autonomy"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-08T15:30Z 441.6K followers, 67.3K engagements
"Kevin Warsh on his former colleagues brief to the Supreme Court: I did not know that senior economic officials at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve expertise went all the way to constitutional jurisprudence"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-08T21:58Z 441.6K followers, 177.1K engagements
"Powell indicated on Tuesday that the kind of funding pressures becoming evident in overnight lending markets would set up the likely end of QT in coming months because officials don't want to find out where the steeper part of the reserve-demand curve sits. But it's worth noting that Miki Bowman the vice chair for bank supervision just a few weeks ago endorsed revamping the Fed's operating framework so that the types of funding pressures seen this week would not be unusual per se. From her speech on Sept. 26: Over the longer run my preference is to maintain the smallest balance sheet possible"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-17T14:41Z 441.6K followers, 322.4K engagements
"How should the Fed think about recent funding market signals. These paragraphs from Lorie Logan's most recent balance-sheet speech (in August) seem relevant now. Especially these sentences: "To get back to the long-run demand curve for reserves central banks need to bring the average level of market rates up closer to interest on reserves in a sustained way. Moving the average level up closer to interest on reserves also requires some tolerance for temporary modest moves above interest on reserves.""
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-17T16:35Z 441.6K followers, 92K engagements
"This is going to be an interesting meeting to see how Powell threads the needlevia the consensus-oriented policy statementat a time when disagreements over the rate outlook are more stark. Would-be Fed dissenters face their own dilemma: A dissent makes a big statement (especially if there's several) but dissenters potentially surrender influence over the market-moving FOMC statement. This institutional practice was captured by then-Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren during a contentious 2011 meeting where three officials opposed the majoritys decision to provide more economic stimulus. He"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-09-17T10:07Z 441.3K followers, 230.9K engagements
"President Trump posts a drawing of himself firing Fed Chair Jay Powell"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-09-27T19:09Z 441.4K followers, 436.4K engagements
"Core PCE inflation is beginning to look no better and by some measures worse than where it was when the Fed started to cut last year Core PCE was XXX% using a 3-month annualized rate in June (the year-ago figure was 2.3%) It was XXX% using a 6-month annualized rate (the year-ago figure was 3.3%) It was XXX% over XX months compared to XXX% in the year-ago period"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-07-31T12:53Z 441.6K followers, 195.6K engagements
"NEW: Every living former Fed chair (Greenspan Bernanke Yellen) . have joined several former Treasury secretaries (Rubin Summers Paulson Geithner Lew) . and CEA chairs (Hubbard Mankiw Romer Furman Rouse Bernstein) who served presidents of both parties . in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court warning a ruling against Lisa Cook's ability to stay in her job would significantly erode Fed independence"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-09-25T14:06Z 441.6K followers, 978.5K engagements
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent describes the Argentine peso as undervalued after the U.S. intervened in currency markets to buy the peso"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-10T12:26Z 441.6K followers, 92.3K engagements
"The BLS will release the September CPI report on Oct. XX. Furloughed workers at the statistical agency are being called back to work to produce the report because the September figure is used for the annual Social Security cost of living adjustment"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-10T19:25Z 441.6K followers, 100.6K engagements
"You might like this -- paper presented at Jackson Hole three years ago essentially argues that when you supply more bank reserves to the system via QE the banking system adapts in ways to want to keep more of those reserves which creates a big asymmetry of course"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-14T18:05Z 441.6K followers, 6124 engagements
"Fed governor Stephen Miran says hes supportive of bringing QT to a stopping point along the lines of what Powell hinted at on Tuesday: I dont know what the market benefit of additional reductions from here are"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-15T17:19Z 441.6K followers, 58K engagements
"@88_Converse"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-18T04:15Z 441.6K followers, 1740 engagements
"Anna Paulson the new president of the Philly Fed is in the camp of Fed officials that believes the economy is not overheated in a way that would allow one-time increases in prices from tariffs to nourish meaningful inflation Paulson also flags risks that the AI stock boom could be masking weak-ish underlying demand"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-13T17:09Z 441.6K followers, 63.5K engagements
"People will talk about the Shohei Ohtani game for years and years. The only question is if people will say which one because every time he does something you thought youd never see he does something else you thought wed never see"
X Link @NickTimiraos 2025-10-18T19:08Z 441.6K followers, 162.5K engagements