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Jerome Powell was born on February 4, 1953 in Washington, D.C., United States and is credited as a lawyer, investment banker and politician. That puts Jerome Powell at 73 years old in 2026. Education on record includes Princeton University.
My Take
Honestly, Jerome Powell might be the most consequential low-key figure in American public life — the guy literally moves global markets with a single word choice at a press conference. Princeton undergrad, Georgetown Law, stints in investment banking and the Treasury before landing the Fed chair job under Trump and then being reappointed by Biden, which tells you something about how he carries himself across the aisle. What I find genuinely compelling about Powell is that he is not an academic economist in the mold of his predecessors — he came up as a lawyer and a deal-maker, and you can feel that pragmatism in how he navigated the post-pandemic inflation surge. He raised rates at the fastest pace in decades and somehow stuck the landing without tipping the economy into a full recession. That is not a given. The white hair, the measured cadence, the careful Fed-speak — it all reads as boring until you realize the stakes are absolutely enormous.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jerome Powell
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェローム・パウエル
- Reading
- じぇろーむ・ぱうえる
- Born
- February 4, 1953 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Snake
- Origin
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Occupation
- lawyer / investment banker / politician / jurist / tax inspector
2. Background
- University
- Princeton University
3. Links
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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Born February 4, 1953 (age 73).
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Jerome Powell is from Washington, D.C., United States.
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Jerome Powell works as lawyer, investment banker, politician, jurist, tax inspector.
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