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Powell signals turning point in policy

Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s congressional testimony this week was markedly more hawkish. We wouldn’t characterise it as a full-blown Volcker moment. But there could be parallels with former Chair Alan Greenspan’s notorious February 1994 Humphrey-Hawkins testimony.

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