August 26, 2023· 33 min

This Is What We Just Learned In Jackson Hole

Orality

Model

88%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(2,390 words)

M:94%

HostTracy Alloway(1,382 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic30%

very, totally, amazing

Engagement78%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, so, like

Repetition100%

like (151x), it's (62x), about (56x)

Parallelism57%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But, seriously, like, you said..., But it is an amazing event....

Sound Patterns72%

53 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases8%

you know what, i mean, to be honest

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%

could, maybe, probably

Passive Voice3%

are steeped, is overwhelmed, is maxed

Abstract Nouns17%

investment, description, witness

Subordination7%

because, until, however

Sentence Length25%

Avg: 11.3 words/sentence

Word Complexity44%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style22%

577 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style65%

partly, seriously, totally

Description

On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave his much-anticipated speech at the Kansas City Fed Monetary Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. While many were expecting some kind of academic or theoretical discussion, the text was straightforwardly about the current path of monetary policy. So what did we learn? What actually happens at Jackson Hole? And how did this year's event fit in with prior years? On this episode, we turn to two of our colleagues, Bloomberg Surveillance co-host Tom Keene as well as Michael McKee, international economics and policy correspondent for Bloomberg Television. We discuss the speech, the whole event, and how 2023 compares and contrasts with previous editions of the event. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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