
Jerome Powell's week from hell
CNN
Everything is going wrong for one of the world's most powerful figures.
Jerome Powell's chances of getting another four-year term as head of the Federal Reserve took a hit Tuesday after Senator Elizabeth Warren called him a "dangerous man" for being too soft on Wall Street banks.
That blow came on the heels of two Fed officials stepping down amid a trading scandal that even Powell acknowledged is "obviously unacceptable."

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President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.