“You have seen a world upended, but you have
also seen a world that is rapidly changing —
sometimes more in one week than some of us
have experienced over the course of decades,”
he said.
“This is an extraordinary time and I believe that
it will result in an extraordinary generation,”
Powell said.
At the town hall is an event started by Ben
Bernanke, one of Powell’s predecessors as Fed
chairman, and continued by former Fed Chair
and now Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. It
seeks to highlight the importance of classes
in economics.