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Podcast: Balance of Power
Episode: Trump Pushes Powell to Lower Rates
Description: Watch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.President Donald Trump pushed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates at their first in-person meeting since the president’s inauguration, the White House said.  The president told Powell that he believes the Fed chair is making a mistake by not lowering rates, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Thursday. That “is putting us at an economic disadvantage to China and other countries, and the president’s been very vocal about that, both publicly and, now...