Trio Of Economists Say Trump’s Twitter Account ‘Poses Significant Threat To Central Bank Independence’

You can count Duke's Francesco Bianchi and the London Business School's Howard Kung and Thilo Kind among the growing crowd of analysts, economists and researchers who worry that Donald Trump's extremely pernicious habit of tweeting about US monetary policy is distorting markets and eroding Fed independence. In a new NBER paper called "Threats to Central Bank Independence: High-Frequency Identification with Twitter", the three economists (and these are real economists, by the way, not the Stephe