- according to which despite Donald Trump's fierce criticisms of the Federal Reserve in the final weeks of the 2016 election campaign "the nation's two most powerful economic-policy players—the president and the leader of the central bank—are "off to a surprisingly smooth start."

According to the WSJ "weeks after his inauguration, President Trump held court with Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen in the Oval Office. Seated behind the office's Resolute desk, he told her she was doing a good job, according to people familiar with the exchange.  Ms. Yellen sat across from Mr. Trump in a chair next to  Gary Cohn, Mr. Trump's chief economic adviser, who has emerged as the key intermediary in the unfolding relationship with the Fed."