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Powell Fed Will Be Least Experienced in History

posted by Michael Lewis on November 21, 2017

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Compared to incoming Fed chairs over the past 40 years, Powell has about average policy experience. Named to the Fed Board of Governors in 2012, Powell will have had nearly six years of direct work conducting monetary policy before taking the helm.

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To no one’s surprise, Janet Yellen announced that she will resign her appointment as a Fed governor when she is replaced as chair on February 3, 2018. That means incoming chairman Jay Powell will take the helm with a nearly empty Fed Board of Governors.

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