Kevin Warsh sworn in as Federal Reserve chair in Trump ceremony

Kevin Warsh is sworn in as Federal Reserve chair, while C-SPAN’s posted page is mostly boilerplate about downloads, links and revenue sharing.

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Kevin Warsh sworn in as Federal Reserve chair in Trump ceremony

President Trump swore in as chair, according to the title of a posting that names the ceremony but provides no body text with a date, location or further details. The page makes the event the subject, then quickly shifts away from it.

Instead of describing the swearing-in, the source page is dominated by C-SPAN’s standard notes about free downloads with a account, links to books featured on its networks and agreements with retailers that share a small percentage of purchases. It also says C-SPAN earns money as an Associate from qualifying purchases, that any revenue goes into a general account to help fund operations and that questions about fulfillment, customer service, privacy policies or book orders should go to the bookseller’s webmaster or administrator.

That leaves the central news item on the page with almost none of the context readers would normally expect from a or Federal Reserve ceremony. The title says the president swore in Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, but the provided text does not say when it happened, where it took place or what policy direction would follow.

The contrast matters because the page’s business disclosures are far more detailed than the event itself. If the swearing-in was meant to signal a leadership change at the central bank, the source text does not supply the terms of that change, only the fact that the ceremony is the headline and the commercial boilerplate is the rest.

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