Kevin Warsh was found in the Justice Department’s newest batch of files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, appeared in the government’s Friday release of additional Jeffrey Epstein tiles.

Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to “St. Barth’s Christmas 2010,” among others such as Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and disgraced director Brett Ratner. Warsh also appears on a list of people attending a dinner hosted by British aristocrat William Astor.

The news comes the same day that Trump picked Warsh for the Fed, an unexpectedly conventional pick considering how desperate Trump is to sharply lower interest rates. Warsh has a history of being cautious on inflation, but has signaled a willingness for lower rates in the past few months.

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    11 hours ago

    you’re telling me that the same people who are alright with clergymen fucking their kids are also fine with pedophiles being paid by tax dollars to dodge prison and ruin the country?

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    It’s crazy that MAGA was right about an elite pedo ring, but what’s even more crazy is that they embrace it now.

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    I call bullshit when the article says:

    Warsh has a history of being cautious

    According to Time:

    Trump Nominates Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair

    At 35, Warsh became the youngest ever Fed governor when he joined the central bank in 2006. He served as the central bank’s main liaison to Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis. Prior to joining the central bank, Warsh worked as a mergers and acquisitions banker at Morgan Stanley from 1995 to 2002 and as an economics adviser in the George W. Bush Administration.

    Warsh has argued in favor of a dramatic overhaul of the central bank. At an April lecture hosted by the Group of Thirty, an international body of economists and financial leaders, Warsh said “the Fed’s current wounds are largely self-inflicted.” He told CNBC in July that the Fed needs “regime change in the conduct of policy” and “a new Treasury-Fed accord, like we did in 1951 after another period where we built up our nation’s debt and we were stuck with a central bank that was working at cross purposes with the Treasury.”

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    It’s practically a requirement to run in those circles. I’ll be more surprised when someone he chooses doesn’t have a closet full of monsters.