Over the last several months, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has become intimately familiar with Donald Trump ’s penchant for hiring people and then shitting on them in public. (See: former “ first buddy ” Elon Musk, whom Trump called an “ amazing guy ” last November and described as “ the man who has lost his mind ” in June.) Appointed by Trump during his first term in office, Powell has since been treated to near-biweekly abuse by the leader of the free world, which is probably not what he was expecting when he took the gig. Yet unlike the many other people the former real estate developer has hired and then turned on, Powell has not yet been fired. Emphasis on yet, because it sure sounds like Trump is this close to canning the Fed chief, possibly via social media.

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