Meet Jerome Powell

(1) Hotcakes gum up Amazon’s algorithms. (2) Cheaper by the half dozen. (3) Six fed funds rate hikes since start of “normalization.” How many more to go? (4) 3.00% fed funds rate may be the new normal. (5) A refreshing change: Jerome Powell is a lawyer, not an economist. (6) Giving less weight to unobservable measures of slack. (7) The yield curve is neither here nor there. (8) Powell is a low-key middle-of-the-road fellow. (9) Taking a deep dive into the USTR’s case against China’s unfair trade practices. (10) The Chinese government wants more high-tech stuff to be made in China by 2025.