Powell carefully avoided the elephant in the room in last Jackson Hole speech
Powell carefully avoided the elephant in the room in last Jackson Hole speech
- August 22, 2025
- Gary Richardson, economics, Quartz, Yahoo Finance, Aug. 22, 2025
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"In part this is Powell's style and it's the institution's decision to be less confrontational," said Gary Richardson, an ex-historian of the Fed who's now a professor at the University of California, Irvine. "They decided to be non-confrontational and this has been a strategy of the Fed for a long time."
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