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Trump has threatened to fire the chair of the US Federal Reserve. That could be bad news for inflation

Written by Henry Maher, Lecturer in Politics, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

US President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to fire the chair of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.

Up until this week, that may have seemed like a distant and outlandish prospect. Now, we again have to take it seriously.

Powell himself certainly is – and has already begun pushing back on the front foot. Responding to the...

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