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Fed officials split; Biden backs infrastructure deal

Fed Chair Jerome Powell stuck to the script in his congressional appearance earlier this week, arguing it was “very, very, unlikely” that the US would experience a return to the high inflation of the 1970s. Elsewhere, President Joe Biden gave his support to a bipartisan infrastructure deal worth $1trn then promptly threatened to veto it too.

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