Adam Posen
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151 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 14 May
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I feel they're thinking about it.
I feel that they're trying to be very self-aware of that.
And there is a history, Lisa, of central bank independence, and Tom and I are old enough to remember this, that when the Bundesbank was like the leading bank setting policy outside the U.S.,
Whenever a left-wing finance minister, or for that matter, a conservative finance minister, would say you're too tight, the central bank would explicitly, Hans Tietemaier, would explicitly say, you yell at me, I'm not doing anything.
So there is that element.
But I think what Powell has said, what President Collins, who you just had, has said...
is they are trying to make the right call on the economy.
And in the end, I think, if anything, they're going to bend over backwards to not be hawkish today because they want to show that no matter what the Trumpies do, they're going to make the call on the basis of the economy.
Yeah.
Tom, thank you.
I know you curate foreign affairs articles for your audience, and I'm grateful you've picked up on mine.
And I think people have been missing the big picture.
This is an economic regime change.
It's not just the tariffs.
It goes to the 30-year bonds and the international flows that you were talking about.
And so, is inflation going to get out of hand?
No.
Ultimately, no matter who
succeeds Powell, who Trump appoints, they'll be forced to turn around if it gets big.
But what you're going to get is the stuff we saw in the early 80s.
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