Trump Set to Name Kevin Warsh Next Fed Chair: Report

US President Donald Trump will reportedly nominate Bitcoin-friendly Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve when he announces his pick on Friday.

Trump said on Thursday that he will be announcing his pick to replace the central bank’s current chair, Jerome Powell, whose term finishes in May, on Friday morning, with Bloomberg reporting that those familiar with the matter say the president is set to announce Warsh as his nomination.

Reuters had earlier reported that Trump met with Warsh, who served as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, on Thursday, with one person briefed on the discussion saying Warsh impressed the president.

Warsh’s odds of being nominated as the next Federal Reserve chair surged from 30% to 95% on prediction market Polymarket, with the former frontrunner, BlackRock executive Rick Rieder, seeing his odds tank to 3.4%.

Warsh boasts similar odds of being Trump’s pick on Kalshi, at 93%, while Rieder and economist Kevin Hassett are at 5% and 2%, respectively.

Warsh is widely seen as a Federal Reserve chair nomination that would push for fiscal restraint, lower inflation, and an exit from quantitative easing.

Bitcoin can police policymakers: Warsh

Warsh holds a far more favorable view of Bitcoin (BTC) than Powell, who has largely dismissed the cryptocurrency’s role in the US economy.

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In an interview in July with the Hoover Institution, Warsh dismissed the idea that Bitcoin could undermine the Fed’s ability to manage the economy, stating that it could “provide market discipline.”

“Bitcoin doesn’t trouble me. I think of it as an important asset that can help inform policymakerswhen they’re doing things right and wrong.”

“I think it can often be a very good policeman for policy,” Warsh said at the time.