Summers Says Trump Putting Fed on Verge of ‘Credibility Crisis’
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergFormer Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that while financial markets have so far shown limited concern with regard to the Federal Reserve’s independence, the situation “could turn very quickly.”
“We’re on the foothills of a credibility crisis” with regard the Fed, Summers said on Bloomberg Television’s Wall Street Week with David Westin. “We are in completely unprecedented territory.”