Charitable souls may have written off Donald Trump’s nomination of Stephen Moore to the board of the US Federal Reserve as an accident. To follow a week later with Herman Cain, the former pizza king, looks like carelessness. Neither man is remotely qualified to sit in the monetary cockpit of the world’s reserve currency. Both have auditioned for Fed governorships by supporting Mr Trump’s call for monetary loosening. Each would be a thorn in the side of Fed chair Jay Powell, who Mr Trump has been bad-mouthing. Knowing that, Mr Trump’s selections surely qualify as sabotage.
唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)提名斯蒂芬?摩爾(Stephen Moore)為美聯儲(Fed)理事，大度的人可能把這事看作是個意外。但一周后他又提名了前披薩大王——赫爾曼?凱恩（Herman Cain，見文首圖），這就顯得很草率了。這兩人都沒有資格加入管理美國貨幣政策的理事會，畢竟美元是世界儲備貨幣。特朗普呼吁放松貨幣政策，這兩人正是因為支持他的意見而獲得提名的。如果他們真的成為美聯儲理事，向來備受特朗普指責的美聯儲主席杰伊?鮑威爾(Jay Powell)就有的頭疼了。了解了這些，就明白特朗普提名這兩人是存心破壞。