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US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, left, and US President Donald Trump.
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New research notes about games from possible scenarios if president Donald Trump decides to shoot Federal Reserve Chairman Jerom Powell It warns that no matter what is happening next, “it will be a mess”.
“We expect all the others that it will be much negative for the markets probably Study Wolfe“Tobin Marcus and Chutong Zhu are written in a note to customers.
Wolfe’s study suggested that the Supreme Court could ultimately decide whether Trump had the power to fire Powell in the case.
The firm released the analysis a few hours after Powell’s stay, as the head of the Central Bank looked extremely shaky and then looked less sharply.
A high White House official reported CNBC earlier on Wednesday that Trump told a group of republican Congress members the day before that he was likely to fire Powell. “
But during the session of questions and answers in the Oval office with journalists shortly after the official spoke, Trump quickly and publicly denied what his White House was saying.
“We don’t plan to do it,” Trump said. “I don’t rule out anything … But I think it’s very unlikely if he doesn’t have to go for fraud.”
Trump is known to Mercurial and has long scaming staff shooting very soon after they said they have full support.
In the case of Powell, however, Trump complains for several months, exploring the Fed chairman for not reducing interest rates despite the president’s demand to make it.
Ever founder Roger Altman said CNBC “Bell closure“Wednesday” there are many bad ideas. But the president, who fired the chairman of the Fed, or, or should it be said, trying to dismiss him – because it is not clear that he can succeed is one of the worst ideas. “
“This is a terrible idea,” said Altman, who held the post of Deputy Minister of Treasury under former President Bila Clinton.
Altman pointed out that he called the “bright” difference between the economic trajectories of countries that have truly independent central banks, such as the US, and nations that politicized the central banks controlled by the state leaders. “
For the latter it quotes Turkey and Argentina like two examples. In both countries, in recent years, two -digit inflation rates have been.
Moreover, Altman said: “I don’t think the chairman Powell will join the request to leave,” when Trump made it.
“So I think it will eventually be resolved in the courts,” Altman said.
Wolfe research analysts agreed with Altman’s opinion.
“When Trump is actually moving to the Fire Powell, not just resigning him, Powell is allegedly sued for this,” Wolfe’s research said.
“The first big question – whether it will actually quit as lawsuits,” analysts added.
They noted that in a number of other cases where Trump fired the commissioners of independent agencies during his second term, these commissioners filed lawsuits that sought to resume.
“These lawsuits have failed,” analysts wrote.
“The wrinkle in this case is that Powell is the head of his agency, unlike other recent firing in independent agencies, which usually took place in situations where Trump has already appointed a new chairman of the agency and fired commissioners who are not presidents,” the recording said.
“In these cases, the chair can affect these firing, but there is actually no one who can shoot from Powell,” the report said.
The note emphasized three possible scenarios when Trump shoots Powell.
First, Powell remains the actual chairman of the Fed, while Trump is committed to the judgment to remove it.
Secondly, Powell “leaves voluntarily and lawsuits to be restored.”
In the third and most dramatic scenario, Powell is trying to remain chairman, and Trump is looking for his removal through executive actions.
The note states that a similar scenario occurred in March, when Washington, Colombia District, police were summoned to accompany the US peace officers after their building after the so -called government department Elon Musk accused them of violation.
“What to say, Powell is conducted with the Fed or the DC police or the federal law enforcement agencies will be an alarming image for markets,” Wolfe’s research analysts write.
If there are court cases about Trump Powell’s firing, it will probably be in the Supreme Court. Analysts noted that most recently noted in the case that “he views the Fed otherwise from other independent agencies when it comes to firing.”
“The federal reserve system is a clearly structured, quasi-private person that stems from different historical traditions of the first and second US banks,” the majority of the Supreme Court writes to Trump to dismiss officials of two other agencies.
Wolfe research analysts said: “We believe that Paul has a decent chance to win in court, but this is not sure.”
They noted that the question of whether the Supreme Court is ready to “keep for the reason for the defense of the chairman of the Fed … This is another question than they are ready to cancel the president, which is a reason.”
One of the scripts postulated in the note is that the Supreme Court will allow the ban on the lower court, which blocks Trump from shooting so that Powell remains in force, while the case of Trump’s power to dismiss him.
“It will probably be enough for it to serve its term as the chairman,” the note reads.