President Donald Trump on Monday kept up his verbal assault on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's refusal for now to further cut interest rates, rattling financial markets growing ever more fearful that Trump may ultimately try to fire the U.

During his four-year term as vice chair of the Federal Reserve, Richard Clarida quickly noticed a trend when it came to President Donald Trump’s comments on monetary policy. Two weeks after the Fed decided to raise interest rates — at Clarida’s first rate-setting meeting at the U.