POLITICIANS TEND to let America’s central bank be. Few voters pay direct attention to monetary policy, and when they notice inflation, it can be helpful to have someone else to blame. Donald Trump is not a usual politician. In his second term the president, who believes interest rates are too high, has assailed(猛烈攻击；抨击) the Federal Reserve with angry lawsuits, fulminated(猛烈抨击；怒斥) on social media about its chair, Jerome “too late” Powell, and launched a bogus(伪造的；虚假的) criminal probe into Mr Powell to browbeat(威吓；恐吓) him.
政客们往往不去干涉美国央行。很少有选民直接关注货币政策，当他们注意到通胀时，找别人来背锅是有用的。唐纳德·特朗普不是一般的政客。在他的第二个任期内，这位认为利率过高的总统用愤怒的诉讼攻击美联储，在社交媒体上猛烈抨击其主席杰罗姆·“太迟了”·鲍威尔，并对鲍威尔发起了虚假的刑事调查以恐吓他。
So far presidential haranguing(长篇激烈的演说；抨击) has not had the desired effect. It may even have backfired, by stiffening the spines of the Fed’s defenders. The Supreme Court looks poised to deny Mr Trump the right to fire Lisa Cook, a Fed governor. A ploy by Thom Tillis, a retiring Republican senator, to hold up the confirmation of Kevin Warsh, Mr Trump’s pick to succeed Mr Powell, succeeded in forcing the Department of Justice (DoJ) to drop its case against the Fed chair on April 24th. Markets now shrug off(不理会；对…不予理睬) Mr Trump’s regular Fed-bashing.
迄今为止，总统的激烈抨击并没有达到预期效果。甚至可能适得其反，反而让美联储的捍卫者更加坚定。最高法院似乎准备剥夺特朗普解雇美联储理事丽莎·库克的权利。即将退休的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯采取了拖延特朗普提名凯文·沃什（接替鲍威尔）确认的策略，成功迫使司法部于4月24日撤销了对美联储主席的诉讼。市场现在对特朗普惯常的抨击美联储行为不以为然。