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The conservative outlet National Review hammered President Donald Trump this week over his recent attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

“If Donald Trump is upset about higher interest rates, he should stop doing just about everything he can to undermine the U.S. economy in the eyes of the world,” the editors wrote.

Between tariffs and the attacks on Powell, the U.S. is becoming “a riskier place to do business," the editors said.

“[When] the independence of the central bank comes under threat from the president, people will demand higher yields to make buying U.S. sovereign debt worth their while.”

The outlet noted the best way to see how “real investors with real money” feel is to watch the market as it reacts to Trump’s decisions. “Their verdict is clear: They don’t like it, they’re going to keep saying so with their money as long as the president doesn’t change course, and that has real negative consequences for Americans.”

“The stock market is down, and that’s bad. Worse is the simultaneous decline in the value of the dollar and the price of U.S. government bonds.”

The editors said declines like this typically happen “in poor countries facing economic crises, not in the richest country in the history of the world.”

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“There’s a constitutional argument to be made that such a restriction on the president’s power is impermissible. But it shouldn’t even get to that point, because firing Powell is not helpful to Trump’s own interests.”

They went on to claim, “Voters want economic stability, and firing Powell would only create more instability.”

America’s debt is also becoming more difficult to finance, meaning the demand for government bonds will go down with it. They believe this means “future tax increases, inflation, or both are on the way.”

The board does have a solution to stop the “chaotic and ill-considered trade and monetary policies,” which is to “keep any one person [Trump] from being able to change them at will. That has been the traditional American practice, and it would be best to follow it.”

The Trump administration responded Tuesday to a New York Times report that raised troubling questions about the whereabouts of a Venezuelan migrant in U.S. custody.

But even the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to clear up the confusion surrounding Ricardo Prada Vasquez, who friends say “simply disappeared,” sent alarm bells ringing for American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.

“It should HORRIFY you that it took a major news story for @DHSGov to say publicly that it imprisoned someone in El Salvador five weeks ago,” Reichlin-Melnick told his social media followers. “The man never once got a trial. No judge ever found him to be a public safety threat or a member of a gang. No due process. No nothing.”

The prominent immigration attorney was reacting to a DHS statement that unsurprisingly pegged Vasquez as a “confirmed member of Tren de Aragua,” who the agency said on Tuesday was removed from the country last month.

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“On Jan. 15, Prada was encountered at the Detroit Windsor Tunnel in Detroit, Michigan attempting to enter the U.S. from Canada and was referred to secondary inspection,” the DHS statement said. “Further investigation resulted in Prada being designated a public safety threat as a confirmed member of TdA and in violation of his conditions of admission. Prada was apprehended and transferred to ICE Michigan for detention. On Feb. 27, an immigration judge ordered Prada removed from the U.S. On March 15, Prada was removed to El Salvador.”

That timeline appears to fit the Times’ reporting that stated Prada had not been heard from or seen since March 15, when the Trump administration flew out planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from Texas to El Salvador.

But, Prada’s name did not appear “on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day,” nor did he appear “in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads,” the Times reported.