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The chair of the Federal Reserve is kind of supposed to be boring.

Nobody wants a flamboyant Fed chair talking off the cuff and maybe spooking the market.

And they're also supposed to be independent from political pressure.

If you're running the central bank, it could be tempting to juice the market in bad times.

Enter Mark Carney, who's merging those two worlds as Canada's new Prime Minister, and one of the only

world leaders who used to lead a G7 central bank, not just one bank, but two of them.

Here to tell us all about Mark Carney, his senior business reporter with the Canadian

Broadcasting Corporation, Enise Haydari.

Welcome, Anise. Thanks for having me back for the view from north of the 49th parallel.

Yes.

Both financial and political watchers here are saying, hey, can this guy switch from high-profile economist?

Plus, it's kind of a pivotal time for both economics and government in North America.

Just a smidge, we're fighting a little bit.

You're the master of the understatement.

Trade and political relations between the US and Canada are at this all-time low.

This is the indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Darien Woods.

Today on the show, we are looking at what it means when a job, like who is deciding a country's interest rate, bleeds into who decides everything else.

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