President Trump's criticism of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has been more public because of Twitter, says economist Alan Blinder.
However, Blinder said Trump's bashing of the Fed and its current chairman,"People have short memories and they forget that this hands-off-the-Fed policy only began with Clinton," said Blinder, who served at the Fed during"If you look earlier than Bill Clinton, there was one Fed bashing after another," he added.. There was no Twitter or equivalent before the Clinton years in the White House from 1993 to 2001. Twitter was founded in 2006.
"None of it was as nasty and personal as what President Trump has been doing to Jay Powell [either]," Blinder said in a
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