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Friday April 4, 2025 11:25am - 12:10pm EDT
Consumer confidence is waning, economists are lowering growth forecasts, and the stock market is increasingly volatile. Tariffs are on, then off, and then on again. How is the Fed navigating this tenuous moment for the economy? What are ordinary Americans to make of it? Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, discusses the economy in the era of Donald Trump's sweeping second-term agenda with SABEW Board President James Nelson, business editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Heather Long, an economics columnist at The Washington Post.
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Heather Long

Economic Columnist, The Washington Post
Heather Long is an economic columnist at The Washington Post and a regular contributor to Marketplace Radio. She won the 2024 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary and is a past SABEW "Best in Business" winner. She got her start in media at her hometown paper: The Patriot-News in Harrisburg... Read More →
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James B. Nelson

Business Editor & Instructor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Marquette University & SABEW Board President
James B. Nelson is business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the SABEW Board President. He also teaches business journalism and editing at Marquette University.James has been an editor for the Journal Sentinel in business news and, before that, in local news, since the... Read More →
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Jerome H. Powell

Chair, Federal Reserve System
Jerome H. Powell first took office as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 5, 2018, for a four-year term. He was reappointed to the office and sworn in for a second four-year term on May 23, 2022. Mr. Powell also serves as Chairman of the Federal... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 11:25am - 12:10pm EDT
Senate Ballroom (2nd floor)

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