Adam Posen

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Odd Lots · Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

I mean that was always understood.

So a certain amount of not like President Trump tweeting the Fed chair is an enemy of the state, not using lawfare

to go after Lisa Cook Governor Cook or now Governor Powell.

I mean that's outrageous.

And arguably criminal.

But certain amount of carping about the central bank, that's fine.

Where the rubber hits the road is partly what you said, which is when does the government treasury secretary or president who's trying to sell US bonds

Say you have to help me sell US bonds, whether or not

Inflation's high.

And in that case what a central banker should do, a Fed President or a Fed Governor should do is say

I'm here to sell help you sell US bonds and your successors sell US bonds and your successors sell US bonds.

And that means I don't

do cheating and manipulation.

Now.

I'm here to help you sell the bonds.

But you're preserving

And so you have to be willing

To stand up.

to that and that gets us into the potential really big situation now.

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