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With a divided committee and an economic landscape transformed by postpandemic shifts, artificial intelligence, and political forces, its traditional guideposts to the economy have become unreliable.

Tuesday’s speech will give Powell a chance to explain how the Fed intends to steer policy when some of its more important guideposts have gone dark.

While we learn from an endnote that the story takes place in 1957, the year is never mentioned and there are few historical or cultural guideposts.

In the meantime, the 9th Circuit’s June decision has served as a guidepost for states seeking to limit what Oregon called a “nationwide campaign to assimilate the military into civilian law enforcement.”

Fishkin draws on the deliberative aspects of Madison’s design, along with the Athenian model of democracy — which involved multiple deliberative bodies fulfilling different functions — as inspirational guideposts.