Jerome Powell Quotes
We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.
Powell, Jerome H. "Prospects for Emerging Market Economies in a Normalizing Global Economy." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 Oct. 2017.
He was opposing the view of President Donald Trump that the United States needs trade protectionism in order to preserve and grow manufacturing jobs. Flake and the majority of the Contgress maintained that protectionism at best would lose more jobs and growth possiblities than it would save, and at worst could start a trade war that throws teh United States into a recession or even a depression.
Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell is the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve, serving in that office since February 2018. He was nominated to the Board of the Federal Reserve in 2012 by President Barack Obama, and subsequently nominated to be the chair of the Fed by President Donald Trump, and confirmed in each case by the United States Senate.