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# ![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::59603406.png) @NickTimiraos Nick Timiraos

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell faced criticism from President Trump and others over the Fed's interest rate policy, with Trump expressing frustration over the Fed's "total and complete moron" and implying he may accelerate the announcement of a new Fed chair. Powell testified before Congress, emphasizing that the Fed is not yet ready to look through tariff-driven price increases and that inflation risks remain. Economists and Fed officials are debating the potential for interest rate cuts, with some arguing that recent improvements in inflation data could warrant a cut, while others see risks from tariffs and a strong labor market.

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[finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX%

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[fed](/topic/fed) #286, [inflation](/topic/inflation) #349, [federal reserve](/topic/federal-reserve) #130, [rates](/topic/rates) #520, [powell](/topic/powell) #171, [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) #952, [bessent](/topic/bessent) #46, [treasury secretary](/topic/treasury-secretary) #27, [fomc](/topic/fomc) #8, [psa](/topic/psa) XXXX%

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"On making Bessent his Fed chair Trump says the Treasury secretary "is an option" but he's not the top option "because I like the job he's doing." "I do like the job he's done. So in that sense probably it's not that much of an option.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945295978216436058) 2025-07-16 01:34:37 UTC 424.3K followers, 93.6K engagements


"Removing Powell as Fed chair could lead to a messy drawn-out standoff. The Fed owns its buildings and controls its security. If Trump attempts removal Powell could try to stay until the courts uphold it or the Senate confirms a replacement"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945656588519240140) 2025-07-17 01:27:33 UTC 424.3K followers, 93.4K engagements


"Penns Peter Conti-Brown: We are in a high-stakes moment in the history of the Federal Reserve. It seems clear to me that the Trump administration using various mechanisms has now cooked up a post-hoc explanation for Powells removal"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1944366552226140444) 2025-07-13 12:01:25 UTC 424.3K followers, 233.1K engagements


"Fed governor Chris Waller: The Fed can lower rates because the short-term rate is still "pretty restrictive." He thinks rates are XXX pp above a long-run steady state neutral. "Were just too tight." "I'm kind of in the minority on this." "Ive tried to lay out in economic terms why we could to this. Its not political.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1943371627573510183) 2025-07-10 18:07:56 UTC 424.1K followers, 209.7K engagements


"Senate Majority Leader John Thune said markets want an independent Federal Reserve that isn't subject to political whims and suggested firing Powell could be damaging to financial markets. From a Wednesday interview on Fox: BAIER: President Trump asked House Republicans on Tuesday during a meeting in the Oval whether he should fire the Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell. They expressed approval. So as the head of the Senate Republicans do you think the President should fire the Fed chair What do you think that would do THUNE: Well I think that ultimately the president probably will make that"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945805289598353744) 2025-07-17 11:18:27 UTC 424.3K followers, 52.1K engagements


"Seasonally adjusted core goods inflation was +0.20% in June the firmest reading since February. Shelter was a mild +0.18% the softest since early 2021. Core services ex housing was +0.21%"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945221995362226503) 2025-07-15 20:40:38 UTC 424.3K followers, 49.1K engagements


"Meanwhile personal consumption appears to be slowing though the large decline (-0.3%) for May is partly (largely) payback for the increase in auto sales to get ahead of the tariffs. Discretionary services spending not as poor but not great"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1938593595902370144) 2025-06-27 13:41:45 UTC 424.2K followers, 28.6K engagements


"The manufacturing ISM printed at XXXX% in January. U.S. manufacturing activity expanded in January after XX consecutive months of contraction"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1886430829468917955) 2025-02-03 15:05:32 UTC 424.2K followers, 74.1K engagements


"When people ask me about various internet rumormongering my first instinct is to ignore it in the same way the TV cameras don't show the streaker running on the field at Yankee Stadium. But for people who really do wonder about whether the Fed chair would do the opposite of what he keeps saying he will do (which is to serve out his term as chair now just XX months to go) I reflect on how Powell answered the question about getting in the life raft six years ago. I included that answer in my book because it doesn't get any more absolute: I will never ever ever leave this job voluntarily until"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1943832535319888249) 2025-07-12 00:39:25 UTC 424.3K followers, 409.1K engagements


"It's a Captain Obvious point but: this is setting up to be the most unusual Fed chair succession in over a generation. The first since Volcker succeeded Bill Miller in which the incoming chair promises to take the Fed in a very different direction from his or her predecessor"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945855093301006620) 2025-07-17 14:36:21 UTC 424.3K followers, 67.3K engagements


"There could be a choose-your-own narrative quality to today's CPI report. Core prices rose XXXX% which just happens to be the median MoM rise in core prices over the previous XX months (meaning six months were above and six months were below). This is ever so slightly on the soft side of what was expected by some forecasters but the bottom line is that most of those forecasters expect more meaningful tariff effects in July and August . and goods prices were firmer in June. If you think the worst of the tariff-driven price hikes is still ahead then this report doesn't change your underlying"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945108955543302623) 2025-07-15 13:11:28 UTC 424.3K followers, 224K engagements


"The Fed minutes tell us something we already knew: Officials are divided into three groups 1) Cut this year but not July (the largest group) 2) No cuts this year 3) Cut as soon as the next meeting (which the minutes suggest is only a "couple" ie Waller and Bowman)"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1943009428090827095) 2025-07-09 18:08:41 UTC 424.3K followers, 268.8K engagements


"Hassett to ABC News on whether Trump uses the Fed building expenses as a pretext to get what he wants which is a new Fed chair. HASSETT: "I think that whether the president decides to push down that road or not is going to depend a lot on the answers that we get to the questions that Russ Vought sent to the Fed." "The bottom line is that there's a key statutory problem. In 1913 when we founded the Fed the U.S. was under a gold standard. So it was never envisioned never envisioned by the people that voted for the construction of the Fed that we currently see that the Fed could print money and"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1944440773031686341) 2025-07-13 16:56:20 UTC 424.3K followers, 354.6K engagements


"If people really want to crawl down the rabbit hole of what the Federal Reserve is allowed to do with its finances for the purposes of its buildings (how else does one spend a weekend in Washington these days) they'll find some fairly complete answers in the Federal Reserve Act including as it was amended in December 2000 when Congress explicitly provided for the Fed to expand. (emphasis is mine) "The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall have power to levy semiannually upon the Federal reserve banks in proportion to their capital stock and surplus an assessment sufficient to"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1944442302304518284) 2025-07-13 17:02:25 UTC 424.2K followers, 57.5K engagements


"(Breakeven job growth refers to the number of monthly payroll gains needed on average to hold the unemployment rate steady. If these estimates are right the economy could add very few jobs for the rest of the year without a meaningful rise in the unemployment rate). This would be in some ways the inverse of 2023-24 where the unemployment rate edged up during a period of above-expectations job growth"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1940415019188961387) 2025-07-02 14:19:26 UTC 424.3K followers, 31.8K engagements


"Join us here for a conversation on the economy and markets:"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945181569129316675) 2025-07-15 18:00:00 UTC 424.3K followers, 51.4K engagements


"The Fed added to FAQs on its building project on Sunday that provide lots of context including that the Fed's collaboration with the NCPCthe body that now includes three White House advisers installed by Trump last weekwas voluntary and doesn't extend to any financial oversight of the project: "The Board generally is not subject to direction from the NCPC on its building projects." This explanation follows a separate lengthy answer about who does oversee the Fed (their answer: Congress and also an IG; but not the OMB nor the NCPC)"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1944581333537505747) 2025-07-14 02:14:53 UTC 424.1K followers, 60.1K engagements


"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in recent days privately laid out his case to President Trump for why he believed Trump shouldnt try to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell people familiar with the matter said. @schwartzbWSJ"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1946657603884306630) 2025-07-19 19:45:14 UTC 424.3K followers, 258.5K engagements


"Trump's latest Fed attack is playing out in the court of public opinionnot a court of law. An institution that depends on credibility is defending spending choices on buildings issues with greater salience than the arcane details of rate policy"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945778002148687966) 2025-07-17 09:30:01 UTC 424.3K followers, 42.9K engagements


"Hassett: Theres absolutely no excuse other than partisanship for the Fed not to cut rates"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1937951522610135051) 2025-06-25 19:10:23 UTC 424.3K followers, 40K engagements


"PSA: Join me at X p.m. ET on Tuesday for this webinar on the economy and markets with Lael Brainard and Joe Amato at @GUFinPolicy Register here:"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1944849382358311388) 2025-07-14 20:00:00 UTC 424.2K followers, 88.9K engagements


"Yellen: I don't talk to Secretary Bessent. He has undone everything I worked on at Treasury. Bessent: "I couldn't even tell you what Secretary Yellen's China policy was aside from consuming beer and mushrooms." via @bobdavis187"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1946273159021306139) 2025-07-18 18:17:35 UTC 424.3K followers, 298.8K engagements


"CPI is close to consensus. Not as mild as May. Core prices rose XXXX% in June. 12-month inflation was XXX% Headline prices rose 0.29%. 12-month inflation was 2.6%"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945100310176809346) 2025-07-15 12:37:06 UTC 424.3K followers, 319.3K engagements


"Waller removes any doubt: He'll vote for a July cut. The opening line of the speech gets to the point: My purpose this evening is to explain why I believe that the FOMC should reduce our policy rate by XX basis points at our next meeting"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945974483426173189) 2025-07-17 22:30:45 UTC 424.3K followers, 442.1K engagements


"Kevin Warsh to Larry Kudlow on FBN: -"You can have materially lower interest rates" if the Fed would shrink a couple trillion dollars off the balance sheet. -"We're in a housing recession right now." -Financial market conditions are loose. -"Tariffs are not inflationary.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1942384144077709575) 2025-07-08 00:44:02 UTC 424.2K followers, 116.9K engagements


"Kevin Warsh is asked by @BeckyQuick if the next Fed chair is going to be indepedent. Warsh: "In a word yes. Ive strongly believed for XX years and history tells us that the independent operations in the conduct of monetary policy is essential.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945818618937201146) 2025-07-17 12:11:24 UTC 424.3K followers, 61.1K engagements


"President Trump denied that he was planning to attempt to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell after polling GOP lawmakers during a closed-door meeting about whether he should oust him. I dont rule out anything but I think its highly unlikely.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945520463741956539) 2025-07-16 16:26:39 UTC 424.3K followers, 68.5K engagements


"No pickup in seasonally adjusted initial claims for unemployment benefits last week. Continuing claims continue to point to a slightly less tight labor market compared to a year ago"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945824468527419473) 2025-07-17 12:34:39 UTC 424.3K followers, 40.2K engagements


"Dallas Fed's Lorie Logan: "My base case is that we'll need to keep interest rates modestly restrictive for some time" But "it's also possible that some combination of softer inflation and a weakening labor market will call for lower rates fairly soon.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945269648762572899) 2025-07-15 23:50:00 UTC 424.3K followers, 95.7K engagements


"The next few months of inflation data will offer a key test of competing theories about whether tariffs will prove inflationary and animate potential Fed divisions over how to manage any costs if forecasts are wrongin either direction"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1943121064172593441) 2025-07-10 01:32:17 UTC 424.3K followers, 94.9K engagements


"Trump: "These tariffs may be modified upward or downward depending on our relationship with your country.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1942260330702242017) 2025-07-07 16:32:02 UTC 424.3K followers, 457.4K engagements


"Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin asked a business exec: Are you raising prices because of tariff costs or just using 'tariff noise' as cover "It's both" the exec admitted. "And I feel a little guilty saying that." An economic detective hits the road:"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1941475863549313441) 2025-07-05 12:34:51 UTC 424.2K followers, 188.5K engagements


"At a meeting with investors last month Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lamented Fed Chair Jay Powells caution on rates after having misjudged inflation as transitory in 2021. Attendees said Bessent compared the Fed chair to an old man who having hurt himself after a bad fall was now more likely to fall again because he is always looking down at his feet when he takes a step"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1942963220093780069) 2025-07-09 15:05:04 UTC 424.2K followers, 148.4K engagements


"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who last year floated the idea of naming a "shadow" Fed chair to undercut Jay Powell said the idea of Powell remaining on the Fed board after his term as governor would be "very confusing for the market.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945112591543451724) 2025-07-15 13:25:54 UTC 424.3K followers, 109.8K engagements


"Alternate inflation measures (median and trimmed-mean) CPI showed more price pressures. The Cleveland Fed's XX% trimmed mean inflation gauge (which strips out the items with the largest price changes on the high and low side) was the second highest since early 2024"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945225077718482953) 2025-07-15 20:52:53 UTC 424.2K followers, 25.7K engagements


"June CPI is expected to show core prices rose XXXX% which would bring the 12-month increase to XXX% (from XXX% in May). Headline prices are expected to have risen XXXX% which would lift the 12-month measure to XXX% from XXX% in May"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1944842856734318778) 2025-07-14 19:34:05 UTC 424.3K followers, 285.8K engagements


"Personal income fell XXX% in May and disposable personal income fell XXX% largely reflecting a plunge in Social Security payments (which were boosted due to large retroactive payments earlier this year). Incomes from wages and salaries for private-sector workers rose 0.4%"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1938588847069168053) 2025-06-27 13:22:53 UTC 424.2K followers, 64K engagements


"Piper Sandler's Andy Laperriere: "It's hard to know when this will matter to financial markets but the politicization of the Fed we are witnessing is a monumental development." "While we would not argue the Fed has been pure as the driven snow for the past XX years (and certainly made plenty of mistakes) the turn we are witnessing is a consequential break.""  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945814777986777163) 2025-07-17 11:56:09 UTC 424.3K followers, 66.7K engagements


"Waller arrives at this out-of-consensus position (relative to his colleagues) because he thinks the Fed should look through tariffs and move rates closer to neutral. We should not wait until the labor market deteriorates before we cut the policy rate"  
![@NickTimiraos Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::59603406.png) [@NickTimiraos](/creator/x/NickTimiraos) on [X](/post/tweet/1945976976063295977) 2025-07-17 22:40:40 UTC 424.3K followers, 63.5K engagements