His frequent television appearances are playing well inside the White House. No wonder Rieder vaulted to the top of the list of Fed chair candidates on prediction markets over the past few days. “I would imagine he didn’t bring that up during his interview at the White House,” quipped Stephanie Roth, chief economist at Wolfe Research. “For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration,” Trump said last week during a White House briefing. The reality is there may be no perfect pick who checks all the boxes Trump is looking for in a Fed chair.