Global Money Talk, Released on 8/23/25 (Recorded on 8/22/25)

Powell’s Jackson Hole speech is shaking markets. In this episode, we sit down with former Fed advisor Danielle DiMartino Booth, now CEO & Chief Strategist of Quill Intelligence, to break down what Fed Chair Jerome Powell really said from the Fed’s independence and labor data revisions to the outlook for interest rates and easing cycles. Danielle brings rare insight from her years advising the Dallas Fed during the financial crisis and her bold analysis of monetary policy trends.

00:00 Powell at Jackson Hole
03:02 Jobs Data Revisions
08:00 Fed’s Next Steps
11:04 Fed Board Changes
13:33 Lisa Cook Ethics Debate
16:10 Kugler Resignation & Fed Independence
21:13 Rate Policy & Market Reaction
23:48 Key Market Indicators
26:07 Weak Economy & Rate Cut Outlook

Danielle DiMartino Booth is Founder & CEO of QI Research, a research and analytics firm. She spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse, where she worked fixed income and the public and private equity markets. Danielle earned her BBA as a College of Business Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

  economy, federal reserve, Jackson Hole