{"id":382229,"date":"2018-10-24T17:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/federal-reserve-is-biggest-risk-to-us-economy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:42:58","slug":"federal-reserve-is-biggest-risk-to-us-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/federal-reserve-is-biggest-risk-to-us-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve is \u2018biggest risk\u2019 to US economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has once again criticized the Federal Reserve, calling the nation\u2019s central bank the \u201cbiggest risk\u201d to the US economy for its policy of raising interest rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a White House interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Trump suggested that he regretted nominating Fed chairman Jerome Powell for the four-year term he started in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time we do something great, he raises the interest rates,&#8221; Trump told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said higher interest rates would slow economic growth and add to the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me the Fed is the biggest risk, because I think interest rates are being raised too quickly,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism comes after Trump last week called the Federal Reserve &#8220;my biggest threat&#8221; and said Powell was moving &#8220;too fast&#8221; in hiking rates.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, Trump said the US central bank has gone \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fed has raised interest rates three times this year&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/24\/577964\/US-economy-Trump-Federal-Reserve-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has once again criticized the Federal Reserve, calling the nation\u2019s central bank the \u201cbiggest risk\u201d to the US economy for its policy of raising interest rates. In a White House interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Trump suggested that he regretted nominating Fed chairman Jerome Powell for the four-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}