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Friday, January 17, 2025

Diversity of Opinions at the FOMC

‘We Still Have an Inflation Problem.’ A Fed Newcomer Wants to Go Slow on Rate Cuts.
Central bank’s recent infusion of financial-market brawn includes Beth Hammack, who worked for three decades at Goldman Sachs
Hammack said she sees her job as trying to fuse the analytical rigor of economic theory with the operational agility of market practitioners and businesspeople. “You don’t want to be so married to the ideology that you’re not looking at the actual things that are happening in the world,” she said. “But you can’t just go by your gut. You have to have some stars to guide you.”