Is the End of the Reserve Near? as Unification of Korea Looms!

On August 25, 2025, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump fired Fed­er­al Reserve Gov­er­nor Lisa Cook—the first such pres­i­den­tial ouster in 111 years—citing alleged 2021 mort­gage fraud involv­ing dual pri­ma­ry res­i­dence claims in Michi­gan and Geor­gia for favor­able loan terms, as per a crim­i­nal refer­ral from Fed­er­al Hous­ing Finance Agency Direc­tor Bill Pulte to Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bon­di. Cook, Biden’s 2022 appointee and the first Black woman on the Fed board, refused to resign, argu­ing no “cause” exists under the Fed­er­al Reserve Act, set­ting up a poten­tial Supreme Court bat­tle that could erode the cen­tral bank’s inde­pen­dence and allow Trump to tar­get Chair Jerome Pow­ell, whose term ends in 2026. This comes amid a 5–4 Supreme Court rul­ing on August 21, 2025, per­mit­ting the Trump admin­is­tra­tion to slash $783 mil­lion in block­ing future anti-DEI guid­ance. In for­eign pol­i­cy, Trump’s August 25 Oval Office meet­ing with South Kore­an Pres­i­dent Lee Jae-myung—fresh off a con­tentious “Zelen­skyy moment” fear from staff—focused on Kore­an uni­fi­ca­tion efforts with­out a for­mal North-South peace treaty; Trump expressed desire to meet North Kore­a’s Kim Jong Un, while push­ing to end leas­es for U.S. troops’ bases and gain land own­er­ship. Sep­a­rate­ly, the House Over­sight Com­mit­tee sub­poe­naed Epstein’s estate for a poten­tial “client list,” with for­mer U.S. Attor­ney Alexan­der Acosta—author of Epstein’s 2008 “sweet­heart” plea deal—voluntarily tes­ti­fy­ing on Sep­tem­ber 19, 2025, amid scruti­ny over non-pros­e­cu­tion of co-con­spir­a­tors and ethics laps­es; the probe ques­tions the deal’s legit­i­ma­cy, as Acos­ta (Trump’s ex-Labor Sec­re­tary) was not ini­tial­ly sub­poe­naed despite “poor judg­ment” find­ings. These devel­op­ments sig­nal Trump’s aggres­sive reshap­ing of insti­tu­tions, from mon­e­tary pol­i­cy to inter­na­tion­al alliances and account­abil­i­ty probes, rais­ing fears of erod­ed inde­pen­dence, eco­nom­ic volatil­i­ty, and geopo­lit­i­cal shifts.

• Is this the begin­ning of the end of the Fed­er­al Reserve? Will Trump be able to fire Lisa Cook? We have to push things to the Supreme Court. Break­ing in a 5–4 deci­sion, the Supreme Court allows Trump to cut $783M in DEI research fund­ing. 
• South Korea’s pres­i­dent met in the Oval Office yes­ter­day. South Korea’s pres­i­dent says staff feared a “Zelen­skyy moment” at White House meet­ing. North Korea said he would meet with Don­ald Trump as long as the Unit­ed States rec­og­nizes them as a nuclear pow­er. Trump says he wants to meet with pres­i­dents from North and South Korea. There is a uni­fi­ca­tion effort. There is not a peace agree­ment between North and South Korea. Trump said Wash­ing­ton should seek to obtain the leased sites. Trump wants to get rid of the lease and take own­er­ship of the land in South Korea. We have 40K troops in South Korea on leased land. 
• The com­mit­tees that inves­ti­gate things the law­mak­ers get pay­ment for every com­mit­tee that you are assigned. It applies to DC and to Atlanta. The more com­mit­tees there are on, the more inter­est from lob­by­ists to sup­port them in mon­e­tary ways. Every com­mit­tee you see right now the lob­by­ist writes the leg­is­la­tion and hand it to the com­mit­tees. The com­mit­tee that has been set up for the Epstein files, it has been con­vo­lut­ed. It is not trust­wor­thy. The ship has sailed in trust­ing any­thing the gov­ern­ment says in regard to Epstein. House over­sight sub­poe­nas Epstein estate, includ­ing for any client list. How could the over­sight com­mit­tee be legit­i­mate when every­one is sub­poe­naed but Alexan­der Acos­ta, the one that gave Epstein the sweet­heart plea deal in Flori­da who lat­er became Trump’s Labor Sec­re­tary. Acos­ta is now vol­un­teer­ing to come tes­ti­fy to the com­mit­tee he has not been sub­poe­naed.