Flashback: Fed Principal Economist on Hidden Camera Says Powell’s Legacy Is ‘Someone Who Held the Line Against Trump’

(via Twitter)

EXCERPT:

HIZMO: “He wants to be remembered in history as like — as somebody who held the line against, like, Trump, and like somebody who helped the economy. And Trump was president. He wanted to stimulate the economy.”

UNKNOWN: “Right.”

HIZMO: “But he wouldn’t do it. And he started raising interest rates and doing the opposite to what Trump wanted. So, I mean, so the feeling is this, that like, we don’t want Trump to be in the government.”