Why is the federal funds rate staying the same? | The reasons for Trump's pressure on the heads of the Federal Bank Why is the Federal Reserve resisting Trump's pressure to lower interest rates? Is it up to the chairman of the Federal Reserve to decide on interest rates? Mehdi Ansari, a member of the faculty of the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Sharif University of Technology and a former researcher of the Federal Reserve, tells about the monetary policy behind the scenes of the United States and the reaction of the markets. Daniel Rahimi's video interview with Dr. Mehdi Ansari.