House plays politics with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony via ReutersTV
it's the first time federal reserve chairman Jerome Powell delivered his semi annual economic update from a healthy financial services committee and now controlled by Democrats and to the exchange Wednesday took on a more political tone right from chairwoman Maxine waters first question president trump's policies are damaging our economy are challenging grow this is what you had to pause rate hikes not surprisingly publican members wanted something else from Powell allegation there so...
administration and a Republican Congress but the net and result has been that more people work with both sides of the aisle trying to use power to score political points that left little room for the fed chief provide insight on monetary policy or expand on this upbeat outlook and our January meeting my colleagues and I generally expected economic activity to expand at a solid pace albeit somewhat slower than in two thousand eighteen and the job market to remain strong but that strength Powell...
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