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Now back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.

Hey, let's take some calls.

Let's go to Dominic, North Carolina.

Dominic, how you doing?

Yeah, good morning, Mark.

An early happy Easter, and I love your program.

I want to talk quickly about the Fed.

I mean, this idea, everybody's ripping Trump for criticizing the great Jerome Powell.

First of all, Jerome Powell's been wrong before he waited until inflation got to 9% before he finally, you know, it was transitory,

before he finally started raising rates. Then he's been political before he raised, he lowered rates coming into the election. And lastly, it's unusual

for a Fed chairman to give it as politicized a speech as Powell did before the Economic Club of Chicago where he said that the tariffs would

include high inflation and slow growth. He doesn't know that. And for him to go out there in

public and rip Trump's tariffs is unconscionable, hasn't been done before. And of course Trump's

going to fight him back. Yeah, no, no. Powell has disgraced himself. He's been, uh, you're right,

just been wrong all the time, but he's also been inappropriate at times, and he absolutely

should go. But, uh, Wall Street wants him to stay. They don't want any more, uh, anything

controversial. They don't want any more instability, uncertainty.

But you got to, you remember the talking point was that Trump is running his administration for the oligarchs.

He's there to serve the oligarchs.

Well, the oligarchs don't want these tariffs, and they don't want anything to happen to Paul.

So obviously, Trump is working against the billionaires

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