Is Powell a Good Pick as Fed Chair?

Years before he was tapped to lead the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell brought to the world’s most powerful central bank a lesson he learned in the business world: manage or be managed.On everything from the payments system to monetary policy, he noticed the Fed’s brainy staff of economists would hash out their differences among themselves and then present governors with a unified policy recommendation, expecting them mostly to follow their advice.That didn’t sit well with a lawyer who cut his teeth in private-equity investing. In that line of work, proposed deals must survive a gauntlet of scrutiny in front of top decision makers, with some firm members assigned specifically to argue against a would-be investment.

Source: Fed Chair Nominee Powell Is No Ph.D., But No Pushover Either – Bloomberg

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