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Jerome Powell: The Most Powerful Person You've Never Heard Of

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Avery Chen's chart work has students read three federal funds rate values from Powell's early tenure, trace the zero-bound stretch after rates fell to 0.25 percent in early 2020, then pull S&P 500 levels around each pivot before an October 2026 retrospective memo.

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