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Jerome Powell: Adding $1.5 trillion to the deficit would make a bad situation worse.

On the recordFebruary 28, 2018
Adding $1.5 trillion to the deficit would make a bad situation worse.
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Jerome Powell
Republican · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Warning about the negative impact of increasing the deficit.

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