If It Pleases The Court, Jerome Powell Would Rather Congress Didn’t Ask Him About The Trade War

Jerome Powell is on Capitol Hill on Tuesday (it's Humphrey Hawkins week, in case you forgot),  and his testimony will be scrutinized heavily in light of the trade frictions and the prospect that a trade-related downturn in global growth could spill over and put the brakes on U.S. economic momentum. Last week, in an interview with American Public Media’s “Marketplace” program, Powell was non-committal on the trade issue, but his comments in Sintra as well as the June Fed minutes refl