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...Lael Brainard, the White House economic adviser, said Samsung had also made a “series of commitments to enable it to manufacture chips directly for the Department of Defense”....
...“Demand has held up surprisingly well given how much prices have risen,” said Michael Zdinak, who leads S&P’s US consumer markets service....
...In the event of a contraction, the unemployment rate would eclipse 5.5 per cent, a majority reckoned, well above the current 3.7 per cent level....
...“Even as prices have come down on important items like a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs, some corporations aren’t passing those savings on to consumers,” Lael Brainard, director of the White House’s National...
...“Capital One is a healthy, well-managed, well-capitalised bank. Discover less so,” said one bank M&A lawyer. “Part of this is regulators having Capital One solve a problem for them.”...
...Lael Brainard likes to chart her journey to the top ranks of American economic policymaking by starting with her childhood observations....
...Consider the recent statement about Japanese giant Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel by the president’s top economic adviser, Lael Brainard....
...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...
...What’s more, growth isn’t concentrated in just the usual places but has been strong around the country: national economic adviser Lael Brainard has been out touting the administration’s focus on “place-based...
...Biden made other changes as well on Tuesday....
...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...
...“The president vowed to put in place a very different approach, an approach that grows the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, and that is very focused on growing our middle class,” Lael Brainard...
...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...
...That may well prove to be the case....
...bit, then it might well be appropriate to have another [Fed] meeting where we proceed at the same pace.”...
...It could well be, as suggested by vice chair Lael Brainard a few weeks ago, that the Fed is guided by a slimmed down view of financial conditions....
...Lael Brainard, the Fed vice-chair, in a separate statement on Friday, highlighted the volatility that has engulfed some financial markets over the past six months, and underscored that the central bank would...
...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...
...She made various other hawkish noises, as well. This is a big deal. Bond yields rose and stocks fell....
...Mexico’s central bank slashed its growth projections for 2023 late last month citing geopolitical uncertainty as well as a slowdown in the US economy....
...Lael Brainard, Fed vice-chair, points to the drawn-out sequence of shocks to the supply of labour, commodities and critical inputs such as semiconductors....
...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....
...“We need a well-supported philosophy of ‘disrupt or ossify’, too. FT magazine columnist Tim Harford on the other hand takes a more positive view of the future....
...well lately, too, for example)....
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