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2024-11-08 Home Front: Politix

Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said he won't step down if President-elect Trump asked him to

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Posted by Fred 2024-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Powell needs to understand that the only person in government that answers to no one in the supreme court. Powell has a boss, and it is republican led and when Trump says its time to go, they will act.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-11-08 05:00|| 2024-11-08 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Your Fired!.

Posted by Dale 2024-11-08 05:39|| 2024-11-08 05:39|| Front Page Top

#3 "Everybody works for somebody."

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-08 06:54|| 2024-11-08 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Article I, II, and III specify the organization of the national government. It can not be part of one of the branches and independent of it. You work for one or the other. Unless you have been granted Civil Service protection, in the Executive, you work for the President at his whim.

The Fed was founded to end the cycle of financial 'crashes' of the 19th Century. It's presided over one depression (probably more if you use the original metrics of the '30s) and several 'deep' recessions. It has failed it reason to exist. It has played politics in many of its considerations. It's just another corrupted institution (see - FBI, DoJ).

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-11-08 07:17|| 2024-11-08 07:17|| Front Page Top

#5 The Messagers: the very idea of an unelected bureaucracy is a Trumpian mind sickness.

Powell: derrr deerrr deerrrp!

The Messagers: ....gawdammit.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-11-08 10:34|| 2024-11-08 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ LOL

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-08 10:39|| 2024-11-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Another irrelevant 25 bps cut…

Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-08 10:48|| 2024-11-08 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Give him a red Swingline for Christmas.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-11-08 12:43|| 2024-11-08 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 You don't have a choice dickhead. He is your boss. If he says "Bye", you are gone. Otherwise you get frogmarched out.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-11-08 17:35|| 2024-11-08 17:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Heck, raid his house at 3am with a fed swat team and haul his ass off to jail.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-11-08 21:19|| 2024-11-08 21:19|| Front Page Top

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