Donald Trump has not been shy: he needs rates of interest down, quick. For months, the president has berated the Federal Reserve for dithering and chopping charges too slowly. In July he flirted with firing Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair, however backed off. One other angle of assault opened up when Invoice Pulte, the top of the Federal Housing Finance Company, claimed that Lisa Cook dinner, a governor on the central financial institution’s board, had lied on her mortgage functions.