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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: Should Anna Breman be in trouble?
Description: Of all the nutty stuff Trump is up to, the most egregious is the DOJ-Jerome Powell investigation. Powell —I have not one shadow of doubt— makes, along with his board members, decisions based on traditional economic or monetary thinking. Trump does not. Of course you can debate, as we have in this country, whether a governor or chair of a central bank is doing the right thing or a good thing. But what you don’t do is weaponize the law to hunt him down. A central bank’s independence is the cornerst...