Yellen uppges stötta omval av Powell som Fed-chef

The chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve, which is the central banking system of the United States. The chair is the "active executive officer" and shall preside at meetings of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.The chair serve a four-year term after being nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate, and serve concurrently as member of the Board of Governors. The chair may serve multiple terms (consecutively or non-consecutively), pending a new nomination and confirmation at the end of each term, with William McChesney Martin as the longest serving chair from 1951 to 1970, and Alan Greenspan been a close second. The chairs cannot be dismissed by the president before the end of their term.The current chair is Jerome Powell, who was sworn in on February 5, 2018. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump on November 2, 2017, and was later confirmed by the Senate.