Friday, November 7, 2025

Fed's Balancing Act

Cleveland Fed’s Beth Hammack Skeptical of Further Cuts
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cleveland-feds-beth-hammack-skeptical-of-further-cuts-e36f3589
The central banker suggested she is skeptical the Fed can opt for further interest-rate cuts, given the persistence of inflation and the monetary easing from the rate cuts the Fed has already completed.
 
Hammack, Beth M. “Balancing Act: The Dual Mandate on an Economic Tightrope.” Speech, The Economic Club of New York, New York, New York, November 06, 2025.
 https://doi.org/10.26509/sp-20251106

Fed in economic data hunt turns to the tried-and-true and also the new
https://www.reuters.com/business/fed-economic-data-hunt-turns-tried-and-true-also-new-2025-11-07