Austin Hankwitz

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12,507 appearances 37 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

Austin Hankwitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 37 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 13.

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Rich Habits Podcast · AI Safety Fears, Fed Rate Hikes, & Airbnb's $250M Housing Fund · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

Now, as we kind of think about the scale of what's really taking place underneath the hood, sixteen of eighteen FOMC officials penciled in at least one more rate hike later this year in 2026, with four of them seeing two more rate hikes between now and the end of the year. podcast-host

Compare that back to July when three officials actually dissented in favor of hiking while the committee held steady. podcast-host

Or back in June, Kevin Walsh had his first meeting as chair when the dot plot showed a committee clearly split on whether hikes were even needed. podcast-host

This time, Robert, it was a unanimous decision twelve to zero. podcast-host

We definitely have some work to do, Robert. podcast-host

Kevin Walsh on stage named the actual driver of this being geopolitics, his word for the Iran war and the energy shock that it has caused. podcast-host

He's quoted saying there's no hiding from hotspots around the world. podcast-host

Earlier this year, several officials figured that the energy shock would fade just like the tariff shock did last year, but it hasn't. podcast-host

Crude oil climbed back above $100. podcast-host

A barrel, diesel and refined products are up even further than that. podcast-host

I think I saw jet fuel robber is up ninety percent year over year. podcast-host

And James Eagle Hoff, the chief US economist at BNP Parabus, said officials have, and I quote, reached the acceptance stage of grief on there being a bit of a moderate but persistent inflation problem. podcast-host

That'd be great if we had one percent interest rates. podcast-host

But Walsh for his part used his press conference to draw a line in public between him and the president. podcast-host

He went on stage and said, Part of the independence of the Federal Reserve is we stay in our lane. podcast-host

Independence is a two-way street. podcast-host

That's about as close as a sitting Fed chair gets to publicly pushing back on the president, who just called him the night before of a rate vote. podcast-host

So Robert podcast-host

The Fed just raised interest rates for the first time in over three years. podcast-host

What does this mean for our listeners and their money? podcast-host

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