The White House’s actions have made it harder for the Fed to cut rates,” said a Columbia Business School professor.

In the process he has raised the average effective tariff on goods entering America from 2.5% last year to about 20%, the highest since the Great Depression. The policy process has been chaotic, to put it politely,

He said he would impose tariffs on countries in two to three weeks if deals were not reached, backtracking on his promise to delay them by 90 days.

Trump himself appointed Jerome Powell to head the Federal Reserve back in 2017. But it’s been mostly downhill since then

Gold prices fell more than 2% on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump backed down from threats to dismiss Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and expressed optimism for a trade deal with top metals consumer China,

President Donald Trump said he had “no intention” of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell in remarks from the Oval Office late Tuesday.