• Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, arrives for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) governors group photo at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington on Saturday. The International Monetary Fund warned governments not to rock the boat with trade wars and other disruptions at a time when the global economy is already sailing through choppy waters. | BLOOMBERG
    Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, arrives for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) governors group photo at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington on Saturday. The International Monetary Fund warned governments not to rock the boat with trade wars and other disruptions at a time when the global economy is already sailing through choppy waters. | BLOOMBERG

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on Sunday that actions by the U.S. Federal Reserve have nicked U.S. economic growth and stock market gains by perhaps 30 percent, and that it should begin pumping money into the economy as it did during the 2007-2009 recession.

Trump’s latest broadside against the central bank, delivered by Twitter and without citing any evidence, came as European Central Bank head Mario Draghi and other international officials worried that a Fed politicized by potential Trump nominees would rattle a dollar-based global system.

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