Fed’s Goolsbee Lauds Powell’s Management of Fractious FOMC

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee credited Jerome Powell for the low level of disagreement across the range of Fed officials during his eight-year tenure as chair.

In an interview with Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Goolsbee was asked about the remarkably low number of dissenting votes cast during Powell’s leadership of the Federal Open Market Committee — the panel that sets interest rates.