Adam Posen

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

All good.

Then this speech gets upgraded to a B plus and we're all happy.

And I think there are a number of people now who

hope that's true with some confidence more than before.

Because the big thing, and Teresa and I talked briefly about this before coming on, is how different this was than last year.

Um because last year was all about the attacks on the Fed and the fears for the independence and the standing ovation for Jay Powell was his last thing.

Well last Jackson Hall as chair.

And this year, I think deliberately

the chair and the team wanted to make it much more normal and it passed much more normal.

The second thing is

As a European central banker said to me at s at breakfast this morning, but I think it's widely shared sentiment, for all the anti forward guidance, he basically set up they have to.

Now, as you know, and we talked about a few months ago, I've been urging them to hike for a while.

I think inflation's real.

So I'm again I'm glad if they're making that call.

But

Yeah, at this point they really guided.

Um so if because

If you read there were four sections to the speech, in the fourth section he basically does the litany.

of the reasons you would think inflation is not gonna stay stable or it's gonna persist and maybe go up from here, even though it goes down for a month or two for oil.

And

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