Donald Trump asks who’s the ‘bigger enemy’: Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell or Xi Jinping?
- The president indicated he was planning to take an action that would affect the dollar and the Fed
- He said the Federal Reserve ‘did nothing’ for US economy
“As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible that they can ‘speak’ without knowing or asking what I am doing, which will be announced shortly,” Trump wrote on Twitter. We have a very strong dollar and a very weak Fed. I will work ‘brilliantly’ with both, and the US will do great.
“My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powel or Chairman Xi?”
Trump indicated he was planning to take an action that would affect the dollar and the Fed, but it was unclear what that would be. The president said in a subsequent Twitter post that he would respond to China’s tariffs later on Friday.
China said on Friday it would impose retaliatory tariffs against about US$75 billion worth of US goods, putting as much as an extra 10 per cent on top of existing rates in the dispute between the world’s top two economies.
