Adam Posen
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1,220 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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But the second thing, and this is the part that was really unprecedented under Trump besides the
individual illegal attacks on individual members um is they were
loud last year.
They were
threatening to take away the votes of some of the Reserve Bank presidents or quickly turn over the Reserve Bank presidents, not not get rid of them and put in their own political appointees rather than having the staggered terms as as intended.
And there was, you know, talk about changing the Fed's mandate and there was um and then the things about the Fed's budget.
And so
The big one, economically speaking, is the caving in
in the face of fiscal pressure.
But the
almost as big and as a means to that one.
is the threat to
Politicized turnover fire.
remove the functional independence of the Fed by messing with who's appointed when.
I think he's saying I think Kevin Walsh is saying what you just said, Joe, that I am okay with more dissent and more debate.
I don't believe him.
Um, but uh if you take it at face value, he's right.
Um and that's what I meant in part.
he's right that debate had gotten too little and it's healthy to have debate.
I think Powell, it's partly he was very good inside the building, but I think it was two other things.
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