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Apr 2025
26m 33s

The Market and Fed Chair Powell

The Motley Fool
About this episode

Fed independence brings stability, and markets love stability.


(00:21) Asit Sharma and Dylan Lewis discuss:


- The Trump Administration’s focus on Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

- The role of an independent Federal Reserve Bank for the market and investors.

- Netflix’s earnings and status as a “recession-proof” stock.


(16:23) Anand Chokkavelu hosts Fool Contributors Dan Caplinger and Rick Munarriz for a Scoreboard episode on Shopify.


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Companies discussed: NFLX, SHOP, AMZN


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Anand Chokkavelu, Dan Caplinger, Rick Munarriz

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineer: Dan Boyd

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