independence
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The independence of the Federal Reserve is “critical to good economic performance,” said Janet Yellen, former Fed chair and former Treasury secretary, and protecting it requires “ongoing effort” from people inside and outside the institution.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Here, as elsewhere, the solutions the book proposes do not create the sort of independence the book imagines necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Mexico's mining sector, which had been the bedrock of the country's economic success, was in ruins after a decade-long war that resulted in independence from Spain.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Former Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Sunday called the Federal Reserve’s independence “a priceless asset” that must be protected.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
At his father’s suggestion, he’d been reading Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience,” and about the life of Gandhi, the leader of India’s nonviolent independence movement.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing independence
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