{"id":74287,"date":"2026-06-01T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ex-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-sounds-alarm-over-political-interference\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:56:08","slug":"ex-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-sounds-alarm-over-political-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ex-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-sounds-alarm-over-political-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sounds alarm over political interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powell says central bank has been facing \u2018stress test\u2019 under Trump, as supreme court weighs decision on Fed governor that president tried to fire<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/jerome-powell\">Jerome Powell<\/a>, the former chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/federal-reserve\">Federal Reserve<\/a>, has warned that a single act of political interference in monetary policy could permanently destroy public trust in the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>As Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> continues to test the Fed\u2019s longstanding independence, Powell said in a speech on Sunday night that the institution was in the midst of a \u201cstress test\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jun\/01\/federal-reserve-jerome-powell-kennedy-award\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powell says central bank has been facing \u2018stress test\u2019 under Trump, as supreme court weighs decision on Fed governor that president tried to fire Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Jerome Powell, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, has warned that a single act of political interference in monetary policy could &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sounds alarm over political interference\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ex-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-sounds-alarm-over-political-interference\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sounds alarm over political interference\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}