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BREAKING: Trump Admits His Fed Pick Was a Mistake And Why This Matters More Than the Quote Itself
President Donald Trump just made one of the most revealing economic statements he’s made in years.
He openly said that choosing Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair in 2017 was a mistake and that he should have selected Kevin Warsh instead. Trump didn’t stop there. He went further, saying he believes Warsh could help grow the U.S. economy by as much as 15% through different monetary policies.
This isn’t just political regret.
It’s a window into how power, money, and economic philosophy collide at the highest level.
To understand why this matters, you have to understand what the Federal Reserve actually controls — and what kind of Fed chair shapes outcomes.
The Fed doesn’t just “set rates.” It controls liquidity, credit conditions, risk appetite, and indirectly the speed at which the economy expands or contracts. When the Fed tightens, borrowing becomes expensive, growth slows, and asset prices compress. When it loosens, capital flows, risk-taking increases, and growth accelerates. Over time, these decisions compound.
Trump’s frustration with Powell has always centered on this exact point.
During Trump’s presidency, Powell prioritized inflation control and Fed independence over aggressive growth. Rates were raised. Liquidity tightened. Markets wobbled. Trump wanted a Fed chair who would actively support expansion, asset prices, and growth momentum — especially during periods when inflation was not yet a threat.
Kevin Warsh represents a very different philosophy.
Warsh is widely seen as more skeptical of excessive tightening and more aware of how monetary policy spills into asset markets, employment, and long-term competitiveness. While he isn’t reckless, his framework leans toward growth-first thinking — particularly when inflation pressures are manageable.
When Trump says Warsh could help grow the economy by 15%, he’s not talking about magic. He’s talking about policy posture.
Lower and more flexible rates reduce the cost of capital. Businesses invest more. Consumers borrow more. Asset values rise. Confidence improves. When confidence improves, velocity increases — money moves faster through the system. That’s how economies accelerate.
But there’s a trade-off.
Powell represents caution. Warsh represents acceleration.
Powell’s approach is designed to protect credibility, prevent overheating, and avoid long-term instability — even if that means sacrificing short-term growth. Warsh’s approach, as Trump sees it, would be more willing to push the system harder to unlock growth and competitiveness, especially in a global environment where other countries are actively stimulating their economies.
This debate is not new. It’s the oldest argument in central banking:
stability vs. growth.
What makes Trump’s statement important is timing.
Markets are already sensitive to rate cuts, inflation trends, and political pressure on monetary policy. When a former and potentially future president openly criticizes his Fed chair pick and promotes an alternative vision, it starts shaping expectations — even before any actual policy changes happen.
Markets don’t wait for elections.
They price narratives early.
If investors begin to believe that future leadership could push for a more growth-oriented Fed, they start adjusting risk exposure, asset allocation, and long-term assumptions. That affects equities, bonds, real estate, and even crypto.
There’s also a learning lesson here for anyone watching from the outside.
Central bank appointments matter more than almost any single economic decision a president makes. Tax cuts come and go. Spending bills expire. But monetary policy compounds silently over years. One appointment can shape an entire economic cycle.

Trump admitting this mistake is essentially admitting that personnel decisions can outweigh ideology.

You can promise growth, but if the institution controlling liquidity doesn’t align with that goal, the system resists you.

This is also why Trump’s confidence in Warsh is so strong. From his perspective, the U.S. economy underperformed its potential because monetary brakes were applied too early and too hard. Whether that belief is correct is debatable — but the framework behind it is coherent.

Growth isn’t just about innovation.

It’s about access to capital.

And capital flows where policy allows it to flow.

The deeper takeaway isn’t about Powell versus Warsh. It’s about how fragile economic outcomes are to leadership philosophy. Two qualified economists, two radically different outcomes — not because one is smarter, but because one is more cautious.

As investors, builders, or observers, this is the real lesson:

Macro outcomes are driven by incentives, not intentions.

Trump’s statement is a reminder that central banks aren’t neutral forces of nature. They are guided by people, beliefs, and risk tolerance. Change the person, and you often change the trajectory.

Whether or not Trump ever gets the chance to make that appointment again, the message is already out there: the next phase of U.S. economic policy could look very different.

And markets are already paying attention.

The real question now is not whether Powell was a mistake

It’s whether the next Fed era, whoever leads it, will prioritize restraint… or growth.

Because that decision doesn’t just shape charts.

It shapes lives, businesses, and th
e next decade of the economy.
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🔹The UK government is facing internal political trouble after a senior advisor resigned over a controversial appointment. This has raised concerns about leadership stability.
🔹Political uncertainty is making investors less confident about the UK's economic direction, especially around future policy decisions and governance.
🔹At the same time, markets expect the Bank of England to cut interest rates in the coming months as inflation slows, which reduces the appeal of holding the pound.
🔹With political risk rising and rate cuts expected, investors are becoming cautious on the UK and are shifting focus toward safer or more stable assets.
⭐What does GBPUSD chart says due to uncertainty
💠Using the Mirror Market Concept (MMC), we accurately read the chart and the market respected our identified reversal zones.
💠However, due to the government crisis, investors reacted with sharp sell-offs. This selling created strong supply pressure, and price reversal smoothly from our reversal zone, moving back toward its demand area.

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British PM Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump held a call regarding the joint military base on Diego Garcia Island. Both sides emphasized the strategic importance of the base and agreed to continue close collaboration on its future operations.
📌 Background:
• Relations were tense after Trump reversed support for transferring the island’s sovereignty to Mauritius
• Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Archipelago, remains a key strategic location ~2,000 miles off East Africa
• Original plan allowed UK to transfer control while maintaining base operations via annual fees
⚠️ Strategic moves in global military bases can ripple across geopolitics — worth watching for market sentiment and risk-on/off behavior.
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Popular opinion is missing the sea change in the UK’s crypto operating environment. Beneath regulatory criticism, the UK is accelerating its crypto evolution
 
Opinion by: Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo
We’re approaching five years since we first heard about the “global crypto hub UK,” and the United Kingdom has drawn its fair share of flak regarding its crypto strategy. 
Amid a perpetually delayed regulatory framework, vanishing company approval rates and increasingly loud public criticism of overzealous and nannying “positive frictions,” UK consumers have been left out in the cold both in product access and product choice when compared to international counterparts.
Meanwhile, those in positions of influence have repeatedly and complacently dismissed the crypto trend, all while failing to implement any protective framework beyond risk warnings.
With the word “crypto” never to be heard in the corridors of power, consensus view has hardened: Britain is unimaginative, sluggish and missing the crypto opportunity.
Forced change from the ground up
Let’s get some perspective here for a moment. The UK is still Western Europe’s largest crypto economy. Coinbase counts it as its second biggest market after the United States. UK residents are active and engaged across the DeFi landscape. Its citizens want and use crypto, regardless of what the country’s leadership says or does.
That, however slowly, is leading to change.

What follows is the optimist’s take on why the UK crypto tanker is slowly turning.
The UK’s quiet crypto pivot
As popular and lively as the UK-bashing has been, the black-white representation conceals an under-represented picture. Beneath the surface, the UK is undergoing a quiet, still largely unrecognized pivot, one that could redefine its position as a global center for crypto business.
First there are the market developments. Retail investors can finally invest in crypto exchange traded products again. The US and the UK are collaborating directly on crypto development. The UK financial regulator, so often the one to drive companies out of the UK market, has begun to speed up applications. And, finally, sterling-based stablecoins are beginning to emerge.
When you put these together with the regulatory and legal developments, you can see the potential for a transformed UK crypto operating environment within a 12-24 month window. The sector will have a full suite of finalized crypto activity-based rules within 2026, and a live regulatory framework in 2027. Legal recognition of digital assets as property has received its final Royal Assent. And that’s all great news for removing the crutches that have been holding the UK crypto market back.
What it means for crypto business
As a result, any global business can look into 2026 and have a reasonable chance of knowing where it stands in developing a UK crypto offer.
The incoming UK crypto framework means that if you want to conduct activities like custodying crypto, operating a trading platform, issuing a stablecoin or offering staking services, you’ll soon have clear rules in place to do it.
And in some ways, what the UK is proposing goes beyond what has been achieved anywhere else.
Unsecured creditor status was a massive factor in the exchange failures of 2022. UK crypto investors, where they entrust their assets to third-party platforms, will have the assurance that their investments are held in legal trust, with recognition of their investor property rights.
For international exchange businesses, an innovative branch-subsidiary proposal would give multinational businesses access to the UK retail market while retaining access to global order books and splitting obligations between home-host regulators.
In crypto adjacent areas, future systemic stablecoins may enjoy a central bank backstop as well as access to direct central bank accounts. And current tokenized fund proposals are looking forward to native issuance models and stablecoin settlement possibilities. 
In this way, the UK is aiming to leverage what has made it stand out: a legal and financial system that innovates and enjoys a leading reputation throughout the world.
An unashamedly pro-crypto UK strategy
Of course, there is still much more to be done. Beyond the mainstreaming a future UK crypto framework will bring, we must go further in harnessing the future potential that decentralized, crypto-based models can bring.
That means utilizing the full power of tokens to allow for entirely new models of capital raising.
It means empowering self-custody models, and not just neo-intermediaries.
And it means using cryptography to advance individual rights to privacy, to sovereignty and to global, seamless value transfer.
In the meantime, the UK is firmly open for crypto business.
Opinion by: Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo.
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