America’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent thinks the Federal Reserve should act more like the Bank of England. This is less of a policy criticism than a structural one. Bessent and his boss at the White House want to have more direct oversight over policymakers after making no secret of their distaste for current chair Jay Powell.
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