Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s passionate defence of the post-crisis tightening of financial regulation in her Jackson Hole speech today isn’t going to go down particularly well at the White House. Donald Trump has made rolling back regulation the centrepiece of his presidency. That might just make the National Economic Council head Gary Cohn the favourite to become the next Fed Chair, when Yellen’s current term expires next February.
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