Global Finance Leaders Resigned To Their Fate In Half-Hearted G-20 Communiqué

To be sure, expectations for the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires were already low prior to Trump's attacks on the Fed, but his CNBC interview and subsequent tweets that seemed to tip a willingness on the part of the White House to pressure Jerome Powell into adopting a more dovish approach in the interest of weakening the dollar, lowered the bar even further. Steve Mnuchin did his best to assuage fears of an imminent encroachment on Fed independence, but he's the wrong messenger. The Treasury Se