Joe Biden assured Tuesday that he would announce
“fairly quickly”
his decision to re-appoint Jerome Powell as head of the American Central Bank (Fed), stressing that there were
“a lot of good”
candidates.
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The reflections are
"underway for a while",
underlined the American president during a press conference in Glasgow (Scotland) for the COP26.
“I've thought about it a lot
,
” he
said,
“there are a lot of good (candidates) but I'm not going to speculate now”
.
Divisions on a second term of Powell
Jerome Powell's four-year term ends next February.
The White House must name the future president before confirmation from Congress.
Democrats are very divided over whether to give him a second term.
