You're member of the council of economic advisory. If you're confirmed, will you resign from the council. Thank you, senator.Um I have received advice from council that uh what is required is an unpaid leave of absence from the council of economic adviserss. And so considering the term for which I'm being nominated is a little bit uh more than four months, that is what I will be taking. Uh if I as as long as that is the advice of council, I will follow the law.Well, uh, your independence has already been se ...

I think the independence of the Fed is absolutely paramount. But we cannot ignore the elephant in the room, and that is that President Trump has launched an all out assault on the independence of the Federal Reserve. Dr.. Myron has said that, quote, To pretend that one can easily shift between highly political and allegedly nonpolitical roles without letting political biases inform policy is at best naive and at worst, sinister, sinister. So that's what you're about to do, go from a highly political role to ...

I imagine you'll be tuned in later on this morning when that hearing begins. But what would you like to hear. I think that he's already foreshadowed what he's going to say.The Senate is worried about the compromising the Fed's independence, and that's probably the only thing that could hang up this confirmation hearing. And he's already stated in his opening remarks that he's going to honor that. Obviously, what that means in practice once you're in the Federal Reserve bill, remains to be seen.But he's goin ...

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So, let's get to Steve Leeman, who is with one of the potential Fed picks, who seemed to have gotten more popular uh as time has been going by and and even before he was mentioned, we had talked about him and and talking about cuts way before that. Uh Chris Waller, hi Steve. >> Yes, we had uh Joe and I am joined by Fed Governor Chris Waller, who because he's right here, he's my pick right now.Thanks for joining us, Governor Waller. Um I want to start off with what uh is is among the most interesting things ...

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Now closing bell on Wall Street announced market domination overtime. We have coverage of the latest moves to get you up to speed on the action from today's trade. Yahoo Finances Jared Blickery joining us now to break down the day.Jared, thank you. Ominous start for September here. We got the Dow down about 250 points or 610 of 1%.That's the chart behind me. You can see we are off of the lows. Those occurred very early in the session.So, not a disaster by any stretch of the imagination, but we know, as we w ...