Economics

Fed Says It’s Trade, Not Rates, That’s Undermining the U.S. Economy

  • Trump says Powell is an ‘enemy’ as companies worry over trade
  • Problem for firms ‘is not the cost of capital’ says official
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump has a pithy message to Americans worried about the economy: It’s the Fed, Fed, Fed.