Jay Powell Is The Maestro Of Misery
No one has ever quite mastered being no things to all people quite like the Fed chief.
President Trump
Mike Bloomberg Decides Being A Billionaire Is Way Better Than Being President
It’s yet another way in which he’s intellectually superior to the man he won’t be succeeding.
Trump To Try Nominating People He Agrees With To Fed Board
You know, see if it makes a difference.
Paulson & Co. To Stay A Mostly Family Office For At Least Two More Years
After that and President Trump’s triumphant reelection, JP’s leaving his clients and the rest of us and hightailing it to Puerto Rico.
N.Y. Fed President: Fed Will Do What The Fed Always Does
If that doesn’t sound like news, that’s because it isn’t.
![Michael Vadon [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons](https://dealbreaker.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTYxMjc3NzQxMDI2NTg0NTQw/trump5.jpg)
Did Jay Powell’s Rate Hike Kill The President?
It’s been like a half-hour since the announcement and the Tweeter-in-Chief is silent.
If Jose Canseco Can’t Be Fed Chair, UN Ambassador, He Guesses He’ll Settle For White House Chief Of Staff
But only if the job includes overseeing the president’s diet, exercise routine.
Mick Mulvaney’s Got His Eye On Another Government Agency To Destroy
Don’t worry: He’ll do it quietly enough not to wake Wilbur.
![By Paul Elledge [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons](https://dealbreaker.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTYxMjc3MTAwODA3MTAzOTg5/kengriffin6.jpg)
Jay Powell Can Always Go Work For Ken Griffin If This Fed Chair Thing Doesn’t Work Out
The Citadel chief is an admirer and defender.
![By Ryan McGilchrist [CC BY-SA 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons](https://dealbreaker.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTYxMjc3MTE1NTcxNjQzODkz/multiplechoice.jpg)
Democracy Really Cramping Ray Dalio’s Investing Style
The Enlightened among us will simply have to take account of the proles and their “choices.”
All-Caps On Twitter Is Donald Trump’s Version Of A White House Library Chat
And not just because Trump has no idea where the White House Library is.
It’s Amazing That The Trump-Loving Treasury Leaker Wasn’t A Trump Administration Hire
Still, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards’ incompetence must make Steve Mnuchin proud.
![By Federalreserve [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://dealbreaker.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTYxMjc3MTk4NTE3OTM3NjUz/volcker.jpg)
Paul Volcker Knew Ronald Reagan And You, Mr. President, Are No Ronald Reagan
But in, like, a good way, I guess?
Call The Close: Well This Is Fun, Isn’t It?
You wanted volatility? You got it! Now guess how much.
![By MEDEF [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons](https://dealbreaker.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTYxMjc3MjA0OTYwMzIzNTQ4/lagarde2.jpg)
Donald Trump Is Not Repaying Christine Lagarde’s Faith In Him
The IMF chief is still waiting for the swamp to turn the president into a free trader.
![Happier times. Shealah Craighead [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://dealbreaker.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTYxMjc3MTE2OTEzOTUyMjQ1/gwb-the-announcement-of-the-new-secretary-of-treasury-in-the-rose-garden.jpg)
Establishment Republican Laboring Under Delusion That His Opinions Still Matter
Ladies and gentleman, Hank Paulson!
Jay Powell Adorably Thinks He’s The Man To Find Congressional Republicans’ Spine
Sorry, Jay: Like a smooth way to unwind the Fed’s balance sheet, it doesn’t exist.
Jay Powell Says That’s Just, Like, The President’s Opinion, Man
Trumpian browbeating only goes so far when the rats are abandoning the ship at this rate.