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The Bland Bombshell and the Big Banks

Is there anyone more bland, more powerful, and less recognizable than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell? He makes money moves more than Cardi B, and yet most people wouldn’t recognize him if he were sitting on their lap in the subway. Why do relatively obscure banker meetings matter? Fair question. It's precisely why our GZERO team in Washington is covering the IMF-World Bank spring meetings this week.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, DC.
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Central bankers forecast clouds, with a chance of rate cuts

Hopes for a break in the monetary policy clouds were frustrated this week as two North American central bankers said that interest rate cuts remain some way off.