Former Fed Chair Jerome Powell Just Took a Jab at President Donald Trump, While Indirectly Leveling With Wall Street About Inflation

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Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTSean Williams, The Motley FoolSun, June 7, 2026 at 12:56 PM GMT+2 7 min readIt's been quite the year for Wall Street and America's foremost financial institution, the Federal Reserve. Since the start of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have all closed at record levels. As for the Fed, it's under new leadership.The