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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump says he has a top choice to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, but skips on a name

Donald Trump said that he has likely narrowed down his pick to replace Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, to one person.

But he declined to say who that person was as he spoke to CNBC’s Joe Kernen after his Wednesday speech to the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Trump’s speech to world leaders was a rambling address where he attacked his domestic and international political foes while finally ruling out military action against a NATO ally in order to acquire Greenland.

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