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Kevin Warsh was nominated to succeed Jerome Powell as chair and cleared the Senate committee stage. An attempt to remove governor Lisa Cook was blocked in court, and a Justice Department referral against Powell was later dropped. Powell served out his term, publicly warning that the institution was undergoing a stress test and that lost credibility would be difficult to restore.
Each card below is one coalition with its own frame on the same contested phenomenon.
Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
Loaded vocabulary per coalition and recent headlines under each frame.
Business and wire coverage treating the chair nomination and Senate confirmation as an ordinary handover -- a nominee clearing committee, an incumbent serving out his term, the board continuing to set policy on its own reading of inflation -- and stressing that the legal architecture of independence has held.
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Countries directly involved in these tensions, or whose own outlets cover them.
Coverage of the pressure side of the same story -- an attempt to remove a sitting governor blocked in court, a criminal referral against the chair later dropped, public demands that he resign, a chair warning the institution is under a stress test and that lost credibility is hard to restore.
Russian, Chinese and Iranian state coverage reading the fight over the central bank as confirmation that the dollar system is politically managed and unreliable, and as an argument for reserve diversification and settlement outside US institutions.
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