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...In fact, it is that strong growth that has given rate-setters leeway in deciding when, and by how much, to begin easing monetary policy, noted Christopher Waller, a governor at the Fed, last month....
...He has secured public endorsements from JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, members of the Disney family, and prominent shareholders including Laurene Powell Jobs and Star Wars creator George Lucas....
...Shale was “long considered a cash furnace” by investors, as our former colleague Jamie Powell wrote....
...Powell set markets on this uncertain path last August when he described the Fed as “navigating by the stars under cloudy skies”....
...Christopher Waller — among the most hawkish members of the Federal Open Market Committee and who casts a vote at every policy meeting — said on Tuesday that the Fed was well-positioned to proceed “carefully...
...Fed chair Jay Powell has given no indication cuts are on the table....
...Many officials — including Lorie Logan, the hawkish president of the Dallas Fed, and governor Christopher Waller — have suggested that the surge in yields could offset the need for the central bank to raise...
...However, a question remains over the extent to which Fed chair Jay Powell will hint at cuts on the horizon....
...Some officials such as John Williams, president of the New York Fed, and Christopher Waller, Fed governor, have suggested that loosening monetary policy could still be necessary so that interest rates, once...
...Fed chair Jay Powell said this month that the central bank was not thinking about rate cuts “now at all”....
...The story, recounted by author Christopher Klein, marks the largest incursion into the American mainland by a hostile state this past century....
...Powell said earlier this month that officials are not thinking about such policy action “right now at all”. But Powell has previously offered up clues about the Fed’s thinking....
...Fed chair Jay Powell used his post-meeting press conference on January 31 to push back against market expectations that the central bank would begin cutting rates as soon as March....
...Powell and influential governors such as Christopher Waller have seemingly erected a high bar for additional tightening — suggesting recently that it would need fresh evidence that economic growth was not...
...Back then, the argument made by “team transitory” economists (and Jay Powell, for a while) was that price pressures were mostly attributable to lockdowns, jams in supply chains and Russia’s war in Ukraine...
...So just the other day, we had some comments from Christopher Waller who is a hawkish member of the Federal Reserve....
...Others have expressed concern at the potential ratcheting up of tensions with China and the ditching of Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell....
...Fed governor Christopher Waller has been a leading indicator of Fed thinking; there is chatter he may be the next Fed chair....
...Jay Powell, the Fed chair, has also said the central bank should approach further decisions “carefully”. Christopher Waller, another hawkish Fed governor, is also on board with this approach....
...Christopher Waller, a governor and one of the FOMC’s most hawkish members, recently said the September gathering would be a “live meeting”, meaning the Fed could raise rates then....
...Not to be outdone, Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell also indicated the Fed was “not far” from having the confidence to cut rates. Again, June is the most likely month....
...“Perhaps Powell talks the market down after the Fed meeting.” The central bank’s last meeting for 2023 concludes on December 13....
...Fed chair Jay Powell supported the proposals....
...Jay Powell, the Fed chair, said this year that the central bank would not be a “climate policymaker”....
...In remarks released on Friday, John Williams — the New York Fed president and close ally of chair Jay Powell — noted that price pressures, while still elevated, had eased....
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