Next Fed chair to have a degree in economics?
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The resolution will be based on the official biography released by the Federal Reserve upon the appointment.

Will count bachelor degrees (major) or above, from a top 1000 university according to the Times Higher Education 2020 ranking.

Political economy counts as YES.

So do degrees like "applied economics", "international economics", etc

If Powell is fired but refuses to step down, I will wait for the end of a transitionary period before resolving.

  • Update 2025-04-17 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Update from creator

    • Home economics degrees explicitly do not count for meeting the economics criteria.

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Home economics obviously wouldn't count BTW. Who knows with this administration

Jerome Powell — BA in Politics from Princeton and JD from Georgetown. NO

Paul Volcker – MA in Political Economy (Harvard). YES

Alan Greenspan – PhD in Economics (NYU) YES

Ben Bernanke – PhD in Economics (MIT) YES

Janet Yellen – PhD in Economics (Yale) YES