Risk of Financial Panic Tempers Trump on Firing Powell

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Reads like Trump insiders trying to get outside influence via media coverage to help pitch their &quot;don&#x27;t destroy the American economy for no good reason&quot; plan to Trump.

&gt; For months, Mr. Trump has privately fretted about the prospect of a Great Depression-scale event’s happening on his watch — a scenario he shorthands in conversations as “1929.”