Trump is out to end the Fed’s autonomy. Here’s how he’s trying to get his way

Construction fencing in front of the Marriner S Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington DC, on 24 July. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

When Donald Trump stepped up his campaign to influence the US Federal Reserve, he traveled less than a mile from the White House, to tour the central bank’s headquarters. But as the administration considers how to actually get what it wants, one of the US president’s acolytes looked about 500 miles south.

A condominium above the Four Seasons hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, is at the heart of an extraordinary battle over the future of the Fed, and the independence of its power of the world’s largest economy.