Adam Posen

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Odd Lots · Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

It's not he got it wrong for the wrong reasons.

But, you know, when you and I talked the three of us talked about this last year, which is and the year before, that at Jackson Hole there was this drumbeat from the Fed staff and members

The labor markets could be really weak, the co the inflation is going down.

And there were people like me or Michael Strain at AEI and Diane Swank on in KPMG who were out there saying, We don't see this.

Now I'm not saying necessarily they had to listen to us and clearly they didn't.

But just to say they actually did get something wrong.

There were people who were saying, No, the labor market is not going to collapse in the next two years.

And they kept saying, Yes, it will.

So yeah, they did get some things wrong.

Again, you're right uh to raise it, Tracy.

The um

I mean so the the first thing to say is a certain amount of yelling at or scapegoating the Fed is part of the game.

Okay.

And in fact in previous presidencies it ha kinda sometimes was healthy.

Right?

So it's like oh God.

Fed has to raise rates to raise to deal with inflation.

I don't wanna be blamed for it.

So I'm gonna go out there and yell, but meanwhile in the background, wink, wink, Fed, do your job.

And that was under Volcker, under Greenspan, under Bernanke, under Yellen.

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