Author: Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner
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Trump can control the Fed, but he can’t control interest rates
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Whether President Donald Trump can wrest control of the Federal Reserve is an open, century-old legal question about the president’s power and the ostensible independence of the central bank. But in testing the bounds of the executive branch’s legal power over monetary policy, Trump may very well find that he has pushed its economic power…

