Every New Fed Chair Has Crashed the Market. A New One is Coming May 15th

About this episode

The episode discusses Jerome Powell's final meeting as Fed Chair and the implications of Kevin Warsh's potential leadership amidst a fractured Federal Reserve.

Send us Fan Mail Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair ends May 15th, and his likely successor Kevin Warsh is poised to walk into the most fractured Fed since 1992. In this episode, we're breaking down what actually happened at Powell's final meeting, who the dissenters were and why, and what it tells us about the Fed Warsh is about to inherit. But the bigger question we're wrestling with is this: what does Kevin Warsh actually want to do? He's been remarkably vocal for 20 years about his views o...

People in this episode

Hosts: Kristen, Jen

Topics covered

• Federal Reserve
• Jerome Powell
• Kevin Warsh
• debt
• economic policy
• financial markets

Keywords

• Federal Reserve
• Jerome Powell
• Kevin Warsh
• debt addiction
• economic policy
• financial markets
• Fed Chair

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Organizations: Fed

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