May 18, 2024
Finance

Jay Powell is trying to avoid the fate of a 1970s predecessor. Biden and Trump are making that harder.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is facing intensifying pressure as hotter-than-expected inflation complicates his coming interest rate decisions. The fact that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump weighed in this past week isn’t making it any easier. The situation has a historical parallel: the acute persuasion and coercion that Powell’s predecessors faced during twin bouts of

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Finance

Fed’s Waller is in ‘no rush’ to cut rates in 2024

Federal Reserve governor Chris Waller said Wednesday night that he is in no hurry to cut interest rates after hotter inflation data in the first two months of the year. “There is no rush to cut the policy rate,” Waller said in a speech in New York. The recent data “tells me that it is

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