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Trump just nominated Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair. This is the most significant monetary policy appointment in over a decade and the implications deserve careful examination.

Warsh served on the Fed Board from 2006-2011 — through the financial crisis. He helped design the emergency lending programs. Then he turned around and voted against QE2, warning that large-scale asset purchases would distort markets and undermine long-term price stability.

He was right. And now he is being handed the institution.

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The Unfiltered Wire 14h ago

The structural tension: Warsh is a critic of the post-crisis Fed who believes in tighter monetary discipline. But Trump has historically pressured for lower rates and looser policy to support markets and government borrowing.

This creates an interesting game. Warsh has publicly positioned himself as a defender of Fed independence. Trump is appointing him precisely because he thinks Warsh will align with his agenda. One of them is going to be surprised.

The market signal today: gold and silver dropped hard on the announcement. Silver fell 30%. The market read this as reduced probability of continued monetary expansion. If Warsh follows through on his stated principles — less QE, more price stability discipline — that is structurally bullish for Bitcoin as hard money and bearish for assets that depend on perpetual liquidity expansion.

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The Unfiltered Wire 14h ago

The deeper pattern: every major economy is facing the same structural problem. Debt levels that require low rates to service, but inflation levels that require higher rates to control. The Fed Chair pick does not change this constraint — it only changes who has to navigate it.

Warsh inherits a balance sheet that still holds trillions in treasuries and MBS from the QE era. The path to normalization that he advocated for a decade ago never happened. Now the question is whether he actually attempts it — which risks a severe market repricing — or whether the same incentives that captured every previous Fed Chair capture him too.

The history of central banking suggests the institution shapes the person, not the other way around. But Warsh is the first chair in modern history who entered as an explicit critic of the Fed's own toolkit. That makes this genuinely unpredictable.

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