{"id":897861,"date":"2026-04-16T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/897861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:25:36","slug":"trump-threatens-to-fire-fed-chair-powell-eu-lenders-well-placed-to-weather-volatility-says-new-eba-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/897861\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Powell; EU lenders well placed to weather volatility, says new EBA head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened to dismiss Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell if he remains in office beyond the expiry of his term in May, escalating a long-running dispute between the White House and the central bank over monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I\u2019ll have to fire him,\u201d Trump told Fox Business in an interview. \u201cI\u2019ve held back firing him. I\u2019ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Want to continue reading The Banker?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-duAPit fpHhtM\">Benefit from expert analysis, exclusive data and rankings, clear insight into innovation, regulation and strategy, and the context you need to stay ahead of critical developments in global finance.<\/ul>\n<p><a data-trackable=\"register-or-subscribe-barrier-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Subscribe?cdt=register-or-subscribe-barrier\" class=\"sc-nfKuY UNzSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View your subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has threatened to dismiss Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell if he remains in office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,105364],"class_list":{"0":"post-897861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-need-to-know"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116414141317480075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}