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	Podcast:		Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
	Episode:		Exclusive: Jerome Powell on inflation, soft landings and the Federal Reserve
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:27:57
	Publish Date:		2022-05-12 22:46:09
	Description:		The Senate confirmed Jerome Powell for a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve today. Last week, the Fed announced the biggest interest rate hike in 22 years and its plans for reducing the central bank’s nearly $9 trillion balance sheet, all in an effort to get torrid inflation under control. We sat down with Powell for a long interview about what the Fed can do to engineer a “soft landing” for this economy — and what it can’t.
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