Powell, with ethics move, clears decks for Nov meeting and maybe his renomination

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With a sensitive policy meeting less than two weeks off and a renomination hanging fire in the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell's tightening of Fed ethics rules on Thursday has shifted the narrative away from an issue that had become a chief target for his critics and eliminated a distraction from his day job as well.

The new limits on Fed officials' investments came at "warp speed" for the central bank, just 44 days from the initial reports on regional bank presidents' trading activities, noted David Beckworth, a senior fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

The White House did not address the ethics scandal at the Fed specifically but White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that Biden respects the independence of the Fed. The fallout from the ethics scandal may still resonate in those confirmation hearings if Powell is reappointed. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has said she will oppose his reappointment, and the ethics controversy has become a focus of both the senator and critics of Powell in general.

 

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