{"id":142959,"date":"2026-01-30T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142959"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:29:14","slug":"nyt-president-trump-picks-kevin-warsh-as-next-federal-reserve-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142959","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) president Trump Picks Kevin Warsh as Next Federal Reserve Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Trump announced on Friday that he was nominating Kevin M. Warsh to serve as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, positioning the former central bank governor to take a pivotal role in steering an institution that has faced a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/15\/business\/federal-reserve-trump-independence.html\">barrage of attacks<\/a>&nbsp;from the administration over its reluctance to more aggressively lower interest rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Warsh, saying, \u201cHe will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn top of everything else, he is \u2018central casting\u2019 and will never let you down,\u201d the president wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Trump repeated that line during remarks at the White House and said that while he did not get a commitment from Mr. Warsh to cut rates, he expected that he would do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-fed-chair-kevin-warsh.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump picks a reinvented Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Fed. Warsh, who served on the US central bank&#39;s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011, would succeed Jerome Powell when his term ends in May. As a Fed governor from 2006-11, Warsh called for higher rates even\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qtG5DGUtUv\">pic.twitter.com\/qtG5DGUtUv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schuldensuehner\/status\/2017234678642532362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump announced on Friday that he was nominating Kevin M. Warsh to serve as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, positioning the former central bank governor to take a pivotal role in steering an institution that has faced<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142959\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,671,616,151,665,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-federal-reserve","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-donald-trump","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142963,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142959\/revisions\/142963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}