Stanley Druckenmiller

Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including ‘Project 2025’ author

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has hired two conservative economic policy researchers to work with him at the central bank, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. The two researchers are Paul Winfree, the author of the chapter on the Federal Reserve in the conservative policy blueprint "Project 2025," and Daniel Heil, a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution think tank, where Warsh held a position before joining the Fed. The two are "working as temporary contractors to support...