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[fed-er-uhl] / ˈfɛd ər əl /






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Kevin Warsh is now the chair of the Federal Reserve.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Meanwhile, no date for the files' release has been set, and the statement from the Federal Intelligence Service about "conditions and requirements" sounds ominous to Wettstein.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting will be watched for signs of whether prospects of an interest-rate hike are starting to build given elevated energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

As Kevin Warsh got ready to begin his term as Federal Reserve chair on Friday, the bond market was already anticipating interest-rate increases by the central bank, as Joy Wiltermuth explained.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

No record of how she felt when agents from the Bureau of Investigation—an obscure branch of the Justice Department that, in 1935, would be renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation—finally arrived in town.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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