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

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Vote counts fill in the confirmation history, an 84 to 13 tally in 2018 and 80 to 19 in 2022, then contrast Arthur Burns caving to political pressure in 1972 against Volcker's refusal to bend in 1980, the case this lesson uses for independence.

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