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Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

With Trump's latest tweets the "uncertainty about trade policy" the Fed's Powell spoke of in Jackson Hole has just become certain - certain to escalate further that is. Unless POTUS reverses his "take no prisoners" policy on trade (and even his own central bank), fasten your seatbelts and hang on to your toupees!

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