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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in Washington. The Federal Reserve intensified its drive to curb the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by an sizable half-percentage point. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate confirms Jerome Powell for 2nd term as Fed fights inflation

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing, March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve is poised this week to begin unleashing its most drastic steps in three decades to attack inflation by making it costlier to borrow — for a car, a home, a business deal, a credit card purchase — all of which will compound Americans' financial strains and likely weaken the economy. The Fed is expected to announce Wednesday, May 3, 2022 that it will begin quickly shrinking its vast stockpile of Treasury and mortgage bonds beginning in June — a move that will have the effect of further tightening credit. (Tom Williams, Pool via AP, File)

Fed to fight inflation with fastest rate hikes in decades

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks after President Joe Biden announced Powell's nomination for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Biden also nominated Lael Brainard as vice chair, the No. 2 slot at the Federal Reserve. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Public confidence in Biden, Powell to manage the economy falls by double digits: Gallup poll

FILE- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing, on March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Powell isn't as cheerful about the most robust job market the nation has experienced in recent history, and he and is thinking a little differently than most people about the strong U.S. job market these days. On Thursday, April 20, he described it as “extremely, historically” tight and “unsustainably hot.&quot;(Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Why Fed worries about the strongest U.S. job market in decades

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing, Thursday, March 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Powell said Wednesday, March 23, that new forms of digital money such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins present risks to the financial systems and will require new rules to protect consumers. (Tom Williams, Pool via AP, File)

Fed Chair Powell: Digital currencies will require new regulations

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing, on March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Banking Committee approved Powell's nomination to a second four-year term as chair of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, just hours after the Fed began what will be a difficult effort to combat inflation. (Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP)

Powell says Fed will hike further and faster if necessary

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing, Thursday, March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams, Pool via AP)

Powell says Ukraine war likely to raise fuel prices, add to U.S. inflation

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell listens during his re-nominations hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

Fed to signal timing, speed of rate hikes to cool inflation

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his renominations hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

As Fed meets, investor angst over rate hikes spooks markets

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Fed Chair Powell to pledge to fight inflation at Senate hearing on bid for second term

FILE - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks to lawmakers during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021. With inflation surging, unemployment falling and wages rising, some economists are warning that the Federal Reserve may have waited too long to reverse its ultra-low-rate policies — a delay that could put the economy at heightened risk. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Inflation dominates Powell’s confirmation hearing for a second term steering the Fed

Inflation and Federal Reserve's Mouse Hole Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Powell’s hawkish moves are too timid

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell adjusts his watch as he prepares to speak to lawmakers during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Jerome Powell: Fed ‘not at all sure’ inflation will slow next year

Pedestrians pass the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Omicron variant spooks Wall Street; Dow takes a tumble

FILe - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, on Nov. 22, 2021. Powell says that the appearance of a new COVID-19 variant could slow the economy and hiring. He also says it raises uncertainty about inflation. Powell says in remarks to be delivered to the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that he recent increase in coronavirus cases and the emergence of the omicron variant pose downside risks to employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Powell says Fed may accelerate pullback in economic support

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that “we have both the tools we need and the resolve it will take” to deal with it.

Biden needs to reverse damaging agenda →

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said this week the U.S. central bank might take more aggressive action if price pressures fail to ease.

U.S. stocks edge higher at the end of another bruising week →

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