Trump Expected to Name Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair - Markets on Edge
President Trump is poised to nominate Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, a choice that immediate market moves suggest will shift rate expectations and drive higher Treasury yields as investors reassess monetary policy direction
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10 billion - Amount President Trump is seeking in his lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury
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"very big, powerful ships sailing to Iran" — President Donald Trump
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"Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces.…"