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

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An 8-minute Jackson Hole speech from August 2022 gets its own slide, tied to the emergency Sunday phone vote that cut rates in March 2020. Talking points also flag Twitter attacks from Trump in 2018 and 2019, then note the 2024 cut cycle opened with an unusual 50 basis point move.

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