Jerome Powell actually said...

If we're going to do that successfully, we need to do it in a completely nonpolitical way, which means we don't take sides, we don't play one side against the other, we stay out of issues that are really not our bailiwick.

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Powell stressed the importance of political independence for the Fed.

07/01/2025

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