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Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence

2026-05-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·28m 53s ·by NPR
Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence
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If you have a credit card, hope to buy a house, or just want stable grocery prices – let’s talk about the future of Fed independence! It’s impossibly important for the Federal Reserve to steer monetary policy without political interference – an ideal pushed to its brink during Jerome Powell’s time a