Adam Posen

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

And I totally supported that.

I mean again it's an emergency.

You d y y you don't want to just oh well, you know, according to Vixel, I'm not sure, you know, you the usual central bank thing.

I'm giving a talk in Glasgow and I just sort of wander off into monetary theory.

So I think not through bad motivations, but I think Powell ended up between the COVID panic and then the rallying solidarity and people not wanting to look like they were undermining the chairman while the Fed was under attack.

you did end up getting much lower than usual dissents.

And then what happens

which shouldn't but does happen is it builds momentum.

So if you've gone

twelve meetings, fifteen meetings without anybody dissenting.

the bar psychologically becomes higher for someone to descend.

So again, I hope I'm wrong.

I don't think

I don't think Care Warsh really means it.

I hope he does.

But

Taking it literally, yeah, we went through a period where there was too little dissent.

Well, I know well two of the three members of that committee.

So I worked with Governor King, he was Governor and I knew him before that, when I was at the Bank of England.

And Peter Fisher, the former New York Fed and US Treasury senior official, is on the board of directors of the Pierce Institute.

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