President Trump took aim at the Federal Reserve on Tuesday morning, a move that skeptics said betrayed nervousness about the political dangers of a slowing economy and declining stock market.
The president complained that the Fed should avoid making “yet another mistake,” asserting that its board should read a Wall Street Journal editorial which called for a pause in hiking interest rates.
Fed watchers expect the central bank to raise interest rates on Wednesday for a fourth time this year.
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