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Establishment Fears About Trump’s Focus on the Fed Are About Optics, Not Policy

Establishment Fears About Trump’s Focus on the Fed Are About Optics, Not Policy

Guns and Butter · Mises Institute

September 25, 2025

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Show Notes

The political establishment is trying to stoke panic that Trump is “politicizing” the Federal Reserve. But it’s already political. The real danger, from their perspective, is not that Trump is changing the Fed; it’s that he’s making its true nature harder to hide.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/establishment-fears-about-trumps-focus-fed-are-about-optics-not-policy

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PoliticsThe Fed