02/25/2019
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"I am concerned that if a significant central bank could issue a digital currency, that it would have the potential to supplant the United States dollar now."
"Obviously, President Trump has recklessly now begun a trade war with many of our trading partners, particularly with China."
"I think it is more pressing than now that we actually have a response in place, ready to go, if and when any one of those countries, in particular China, resumes currency manipulation."
"that is no longer true in the Trump era that things like the massive tax cut for the wealthy and the deficit spending have driven inflation more than they have driven wages."