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After firing labor stats head, Trump calls on Powell to resign like Fed Governor Kugler

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell should resign "just like" Fed Governer Adriana ...

Kugler resigning from Fed, opening door to Trump appointment

The Federal Reserve said on Friday that Governor Adriana Kugler is resigning early from her term and will exit the central bank on Aug. 8, potentially shaking up what was already a fractious ...

Fed Won't Budge on Interest Rate Cut Despite Trump's Demand for Mortgage Relief

As was widely expected, Fed policymakers on Wednesday left the central bank's overnight rate unchanged at a range of 4.25% to ...

Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report and baseless claim of 'faked' stats

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after a new jobs report showed a ...

Trump says he would remove Powell ‘in a heartbeat’ if it didn’t ‘disturb the market’

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would most likely not remove Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve ...

Trump Lobs All-Caps Insults At Jerome Powell For Refusing To Lower Interest Rates Once Again

President Donald Trump blasted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in a testy message Thursday morning after Powell refused ...

Powell on ‘solid ground’ by not raising interest rates, says fmr. Kansas City Fed chief

Thomas Hoenig, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Fed Chair ...

Trump has given Powell ‘no motivation to cooperate’ says former White House commerce secretary—he might now be paying the price for it

Trump's former commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, tells Fortune that President Trump has given the Fed an unwinnable dilemma.