Trump threatened Powell's job in order to force him to reduce interest rate and start printing money [1]. Our economy is being micromanaged by Trump who is not an expert in monetory policy and only has disdain for experts of all kinds (virus/economy/climate). Trump says he is qualified to do that because his uncle went to MIT [2].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/business/economy/trump-po...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/12/truth-abou...