Breitbart Business Digest: Here Comes Kevin Warsh

It All Comes Out in the Warsh

Welcome back to Friday. This is Breitbart Business Digest’s weekly wrap, where we compose odes to the economics news of the expiring seven-day period.

This week culminated in the nomination of a former Bush White House economic official to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed chair. We had trade data that the legacy media tried to describe as showing that tariffs are bad, even though the report showed significantly lower trade deficits. And we’re approaching the anniversary of an important event in the history of Fed independence.

Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh speaks during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2025. (Tierney