Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee says a move by Trump to terminate Jerome Powell would ‘undermine the credibility of the Fed’

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President Donald Trump said this week Fed chair Jerome Powell’s “termination cannot come fast enough.” That’s led to a debate about whether the president has the power to remove Federal Reserve leadership. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee says this move could “undermine the credibility of the Fed.”