Michael McKee
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1,106 appearances
198 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Michael McKee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's been working for Stan Druckenmiller at Duquesne Capital since he left the Fed.
But what really probably appeals to the president is that Warsh has been a strident critic of the Fed, accusing the Fed of mission creep, of doing too much instead of just focusing on monetary policy and controlling inflation.
He's a critic of QE.
He wants a much smaller balance sheet for the Fed.
He thinks the Fed could probably give up bank supervision.
And he thinks officials over communicate.
So if he can get control of the committee, he will probably make a lot of changes at the Fed.
And that is something I assume that Donald Trump would be happy with.
Warsh has stayed in close contact with the president ever since, and of course his family, not him as much, but his family has been big donators to the Republican Party.
So Warsh and the president have a relationship.
The biggest issue has been whether Warsh would be too hawkish, given that the president wants extremely low interest rates.
Warsh has made some comments recently to the effect that AI and the massive capital spend we've seen
and the deregulation of the Trump administration would mean faster growth with lower inflation.
So that may have made him acceptable as a final choice.
They do rise to 209,000 last week, but that's still a very, very low number.
Now, we should point out, you've heard a lot about layoffs the last 48 hours or so, including more today from Dow.
Those won't show up as jobless claims until those people's severance runs out.
So we wouldn't expect the numbers that we've heard this week to suddenly show up.
Bloomberg News Now · Dems Block Budget Bills, Trump to Name Fed Chair Next Week, More · 29 Jan 2026
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One of the reasons that the Atlanta Fed GDP now number is so strong is because imports collapsed in October.
And now it looks like we're getting much more of the kind of trade balance we have been getting in the past.
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