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US President Donald Trump, alongside Attorney-General Pam Bondi (right), speaks during a news conference. (AFP/File photo)) US President Donald Trump fired Attorney-General Pam Bondi Thursday and named his former personal lawyer to serve as the acting chief of the Justice Department.The move, which the Republican president announced in a social media post, comes amid criticism of Bondi's handling of the Epstein files and her failure to successfully prosecute several perceived Trump political foes."Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year," Trump said on Truth Social. "Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country."Bondi "will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector to be announced at a date in the near future," the president said, and will be replaced on an interim basis by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.Bondi has been a staunch ally of the president but has drawn fire from some Trump supporters for her handling of the release of the Justice Department files on convicted Jeffrey Epstein.The Epstein affair has been a major political liability for Trump, who was a longtime friend of the disgraced financier.Bondi has also reportedly drawn Trump's ire by falling short with efforts to prosecute perceived Trump opponents such as former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney-General Letitia James.According to The New York Times, Trump may name former Republican congressman Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to be the next attorney-general.In the meantime, the post will be filled by Blanche, who was one of the personal lawyers who defended Trump in the multiple criminal cases he faced after he left the White House in 2021.Bondi's ouster comes nearly a month after Trump fired Kristi Noem as the head of the Department of Homeland Security.Democratic lawmakers welcomed Bondi's firing."Good riddance," said Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts."Under Attorney-General Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice (DOJ) became a cesspool of corruption," Warren said. "Bondi will be remembered for blocking the release of the Epstein files (and) weaponising the DOJ to go after Trump's political opponents."Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said Bondi's "botched handling of the Epstein files" had "denied victims transparency and further undermined trust in our justice system.""Americans deserve a Justice Department that is actually focused on delivering justice, not on serving a president's agenda of personal and political self-interest," Warner said.Bondi joined Trump's legal team during his first term impeachment trial, in which he was alleged to have pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find political dirt on Democrat Joe Biden.Trump was impeached by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives but acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate.Bondi helped push Trump's false claims of voter fraud after he lost the 2020 election to Biden.She made television appearances on behalf of Trump and pushed to delegitimise vote counting in battleground states as part of the push by the former president to overturn the results of the vote.Bondi also criticised the criminal cases brought against Trump, appearing in solidarity at his New York trial, where he was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star.Bondi served as a prosecutor for 18 years before being elected Florida's attorney-general in 2010, the first woman to hold the post. She was re-elected to a second term in 2014. Related Story
Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez meets with US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (out of frame) at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. (AFP/ File Photo) The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions against Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez, who took power after Washington ousted her predecessor Nicolas Maduro in a military operation in January.Rodriguez's name was deleted from the "Specially Designated Nationals List," according to a post on the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control website.Rodriguez welcomed the decision, writing on X that it was part of the "normalisation and strengthening" of bilateral relations."We trust that this progress will allow for the lifting of the sanctions currently in force against our country, and make it possible to build and guarantee an effective binational cooperation agenda for the benefit of our peoples," she added.Ties between Washington and Caracas have warmed since Maduro's ouster, with Rodriguez complying with US President Donald Trump's demands for Caracas to open up its energy industry to American companies.Rodriguez served as Maduro's deputy and was sanctioned by Washington for being a key official in his government, alongside officials including former defence minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.Rodriguez fired Lopez in mid-March, but she has been walking a fine line between demands from Washington and those from her own backers since Maduro's toppling.Cabello, who remains in office, is seen as one of her key backers.On Monday, the US embassy in Caracas resumed operations after being closed for seven years, the State Department said.The reopening came after the US military operation that seized Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from Caracas on January 3, taking them to New York to face drug trafficking charges that they deny.The operation killed around 100 people in Venezuela, according to authorities there. Related Story
The world’s central bankers may be attempting the impossible: to get into the psyche of business executives, labour unions and ordinary households in real time to understand how they are navigating their finances through yet another energy shock. Policymakers are contemplating whether to jack up interest rates to combat rising inflation. But they will only pull the trigger if they think a surge in energy costs induced by the Iran war will filter into other prices, lifting inflation expectations across the entire economy. The problem is that measuring such expectations is notoriously difficult. Central banks have a trove of surveys, gauges and indicators at their disposal but all of them have blind spots if not outright faults. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, they have developed new tools to fill gaps in data about behaviour. But measuring expectations remains more an art than an exact science. That could raise the bar for rate hikes as policymakers are wary of gut-feeling decisions and usually prefer to wait for more evidence to narrow the risk of a policy error. BEHAVIOURS HAVE CHANGED SINCE 2022 INFLATION SPIKEPolicy-makers at the Bank of Canada acknowledged that global uncertainty meant they “would need to rely on judgment more heavily than usual” to plot the path of economy, according to minutes of its March 18 meeting at which it kept rates on hold. Others describe the effort involved in the process. “I try hard to get into the thoughts of price-setters and how they are seeing it — trying to calibrate their confidence in pricing power,” Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Tom Barkin told Reuters. “The ‘hike’ case would be around inflation expectations starting to finally move,” he said. “I don’t have a sense that they’ve broken out at this point.” One complication is that behaviours change. In 2022, consumers and firms had little experience with rapid inflation, making price- and wage-setting a rather rigid exercise. “But now people have lived through a painful episode of inflation, and this may mean that inflation expectations are more fragile, and so they could be more sensitive to such an energy price shock,” European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel said in a university lecture earlier this week. For companies, changing their selling prices was a cumbersome process before the pandemic and so they limited adjustments, often to once a year. This became untenable and the frequency of changes sky-rocketed, Schnabel argued. This makes the frequency and not just the magnitude of such changes a good indicator that expectations are shifting. Traditionally, central banks relied on surveys and market indicators to assess expectations. But surveys are not done frequently enough to capture rapid changes and their time horizon is often out of sync with that of policymakers. Market indicators of expected inflation are also imperfect because they include the extra return, or risk premium, investors demand for holding a particular financial instrument. This changes with market sentiment, blurring shifts in actual price expectations. The stakes are high: investors now expect the ECB to raise rates two or three times this year, the Bank of England twice, and have given up on any Fed rate cuts in 2026. CENTRAL BANKS INNOVATE TO COVER KNOWLEDGE GAPSTo compensate for such information gaps, central banks have developed an array of new tools. They track expected wage changes, including via major pay deals announced by unions, which may be a signal to others negotiating their own pay. They survey firms directly and speak to executives to gauge expected behaviour, and they take on board ever-larger numbers of external surveys with forward-looking indicators. Central bank staff track the frequency of price changes, correct existing surveys to fill data gaps and have revised their own projection models to address shortcomings that missed 2022’s inflation surge caused by the pandemic and Ukraine war. Also key to their judgment call is trying to understand how this inflation shock differs from four years ago. The consensus on this seems firm: conditions are fundamentally different. Interest rates are already higher, government purses are tighter, there is growing slack in the labour market and - unlike during the pandemic, when they were unable to spend - households are not sitting on piles of cash. “We’re coming into this situation with the gradual disinflation that we were having, the labour market is softening (and) growth is a little bit below potential,” Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told Reuters. “And one of the consistent messages we get from businesses is, for most sectors of the economy, a real lack of pricing power.” Using their enhanced insight, central banks are for now confident that longer-term inflation expectations are holding firm around their targets. But the longer the war drags on, the longer energy prices will stay high — and as consumers see everyday costs like fuelling their cars rise, the more likely it is that inflation expectations will move upwards. When exactly this happens will not be clear, leaving policymakers to judge for themselves. “Economics itself is not an exact science,” ECB policymaker Primoz Dolenc said. “It’s of course based on analytics but by definition there is also a perception and judgment element.”