Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, predicts that Powell will avoid taking it easy at the press conference: “He will definitely be surrounded by a host of questions about President Trump's economic agenda, including tariffs, tax cuts, expulsion of immigrants, cuts in the number of federal government employees, and deregulation... and he will definitely avoid answering every question.”

Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, predicts that Powell will avoid taking it easy at the press conference: “He will definitely be surrounded by a host of questions about President Trump's economic agenda, including tariffs, tax cuts, expulsion of immigrants, cuts in the number of federal government employees, and deregulation... and he will definitely avoid answering every question.”