San Francisco Fed President feels 'zero' political pressure from Trump

San Francisco Fed President feels 'zero' political pressure from Trump
Rebecca Howard
By Rebecca Howard Aug. 29 (BusinessDesk) - The US Federal Reserve has come under heavy fire from President Donald Trump but Mary Daly, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said politics are never on its agenda. “You literally walk across the threshold of the FOMC meeting room and when we walk in and we start our deliberations, politics never comes up. They never come up. We never discuss them,” she told journalists in Wellington. “I don’t feel under any political pressure. Zero,” she added...

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