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...Some officials, such as vice-chair Lael Brainard and outgoing president Charles Evans of Chicago, have warned about the Fed overdoing it in terms of monetary tightening, arguing that inflation will moderate...
...On Friday, Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council at the White House, said “recent data certainly give us more evidence that the width of the runway for a soft landing has gotten much...
...Jefferson will fill a position left vacant by Lael Brainard, who left the Fed in February after serving as vice-chair for less than a year to join the Biden administration as the president’s top economic...
...“A year ago, the consensus view was that unemployment would need to go up to 4.5 per cent and the economy would need to stall out in order to get inflation down to where it is today,” Lael Brainard, director...
...Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council at the White House and a former Fed vice-chair, was upbeat about the inflation data and the wider US economy....
...Lael Brainard, the director of the White House National Economic Council, yesterday said Biden’s speech would focus on “growing our middle class”....
...Lael Brainard, the second-in-command at the Federal Reserve, is a contender to become the next top economist at the White House, in what would be a major shake-up for the US central bank as it grapples with...
...Jefferson will fill a spot left vacant by Lael Brainard, who departed the Fed in February after serving as second-in-command for less than a year to join the Biden administration as the president’s top economic...
...Lael Brainard, the vice-chair of the Fed, signalled that the US central bank also had more to do to get inflation closer to its 2 per cent target, despite signs that consumer spending is starting to ebb,...
...US economics editor Colby Smith joins Edward Luce on The Mall in Washington. On the San Francisco waterfront is our West Coast finance editor Tabby Kinder....
...Speaking on Monday, Lael Brainard said the Fed should “soon” bring its string of supersized interest rate increases to an end, having raised rates by 0.75 percentage points at each of its four previous meetings...
...Joe Biden set to name Fed’s Lael Brainard as top economic adviser Lael Brainard, vice-chair of the US Federal Reserve, is expected to succeed Brian Deese as the next director of the National Economic Council...
...Lael Brainard, Fed vice-chair, acknowledged rate rises across the world — a movement largely led by the Fed — would affect highly indebted emerging markets, with rapidly rising rates potentially causing...
...But crucial figures, including Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, National Economic Council director Lael Brainard and White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, were closely following developments....
...Lael Brainard, vice-chair of the Fed, reinforced expectations that the central bank would opt for a third consecutive 0.75 percentage point rate rise at its meeting later this month....
...That cautiousness echoed a sentiment expressed by Lael Brainard, the Fed’s vice-chair, and New York Fed president John Williams on Thursday, who both said the central bank must “stay the course” on further...
...Lael Brainard, the vice-chair who is among the most dovish FOMC members, recently cautioned the “full effect on demand, employment, and inflation of the cumulative tightening that is in the pipeline still...
...Monetary policy Federal Reserve vice chair Lael Brainard will deliver a speech on the economic outlook at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business....
...Lael Brainard said it would “soon” be appropriate for the Fed to end its string of supersized interest rate increases, having delivered 0.75 percentage point increases at each of its four previous meetings...
...In the past week senior policymakers — including Lael Brainard, the Fed vice-chair and John Williams of the New York Fed — repeated that the central bank will “stay the course” on further rate increases....
...A White House official said that from Friday he received regular briefings on the unfolding situation from two top aides who had just taken on new roles at the White House: Lael Brainard, the former Fed...
...The Federal Reserve’s second-in-command, vice-chair Lael Brainard, has said bringing down “elevated” retail margins — the difference between what an item costs a retailer and what a consumer pays — would...
...In remarks made in June but published on Monday, Lael Brainard, the vice-chair, echoed that point and warned of the costs should expectations of future inflation get out of control....
...The US Senate confirmed Lael Brainard to serve as vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, ending a months-long stalemate that left the top job vacant at a time when the central bank is battling the highest inflation...
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