It didn't happen prior to the necessary increases, frankly, in interest rates, which he should have started sooner, and we would have had a much softer landing in all of this. Nor has he responded Jay Powell [has not responded] quickly enough to the shifting economic opportunities. We really need a Fed that remains independent, Maria, for sure, but not independent of the economic movement of the country to include, by the way, the executive branch and the legislative branch of our country. (07:52)
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Asserts that Jay Powell has been slow to respond to economic changes.
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