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Professor Kim Schoenholtz discusses Federal Reserve chair nominee Jerome Powell's qualifications

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Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "Schoenholtz and others who have seen Powell speak and engage with audiences say that Powell knows how to communicate and that he has learned leadership skills at the Fed and in Treasury. Before joining the Fed, Powell had been a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank and a partner at the Carlyle Group, a high-powered Washington, D.C., asset-management firm. 'He’s had a long experience at the Fed, and he’s been part of the process of creating consensus there about policy,' Schoenholtz said."

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