In October, Jay Powell hosted guests at the Federal Reserve’s Marriner Eccles building in Washington. They sat at the boardroom table where the Fed’s Open Market Committee makes its decisions about interest rates and the Fed’s balance sheet. Silk-walled and chandeliered, the room served as a secure meeting place for UK and US military staff during the second world war.
去年10月,杰伊?鮑威爾(Jay Powell)在華盛頓的美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)(Fed)大樓——馬里納?埃克爾斯大廈(Marriner Eccles building)——接待賓客。他們圍坐在聯(lián)邦儲(chǔ)備委員會(huì)會(huì)議室的桌子旁,聯(lián)邦公開市場(chǎng)委員會(huì)(FOMC)就是在這里就利率和美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)資產(chǎn)負(fù)債表做出決定。房間的墻面以絲綢裝飾,天花板懸掛著枝形吊燈,在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間,這個(gè)房間是英國(guó)和美國(guó)軍事人員的安全會(huì)晤場(chǎng)所。