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Challenges Await New Federal Reserve Chair

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Published January 31, 2006 at 5:07 PM EST

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will preside over his last interest-rate meeting Tuesday after more than 18 years in the post. Waiting in the wings is his successor, economist Ben Bernanke.

Steve Inskeep talks with David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

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