Possible Trump pick for Fed has a plan to cut interest rates

 

Kevin Warsh, the former Fed governor considered the most likely replacement for Jerome Powell 

 “Interest rates should be lower. The balance sheet should be smaller,” Warsh told Larry Kudlow on Fox Business.

“And those two things are related to each other. We used to say that interest-rate policy is housing policy. Well we’re in a housing recession right now” 

MarketWatch 8 July 2025

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/possible-trump-pick-for-fed-has-a-plan-to-cut-interest-rates-with-a-catch-52049d26


Larry Kudlow is, of course, the chairman of the National Economic Council, in effect Trump’s chief economist. He’s also famous among those who follow such things for his remarkable track record of being wrong about everything

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2020/07/larry-kudlow-krugman-about.html




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