Catherine Rampell
speaker
159 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
Catherine Rampell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you've looked at how this president has pushed the limits of existing trade law to date and and wreaked havoc across the world and raised prices here at home through those tariffs, I don't quite understand why Congress is voluntarily.
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Giving him more trade power, but that is what the Senate at least has decided to do.
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We'll see what the House does.
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I think that's really the challenge here.
The chair was asked a couple of times by reporters during the press conference, if you are so concerned.
laser focused on getting inflation under control, can you explain why you haven't raised rates yet?
Because Warsh, of course, had been very critical of the Fed under his predecessor's leadership for acting too late.
And Warsh, you know, couldn't really answer or didn't or chose not to answer.
One thing that's a little bit unclear to me is, you know, Warsh has said that he really admires the late chair Alan Greenspan.
And Alan Greenspan was often deliberately opaque.
I mean, he was quoted, I'm going to bungle the quote, but he's quoted as saying repeatedly some version of, if you think you've understood me, you've misunderstood.
That he was trying to be deliberately ambiguous and difficult to read.
And it's a little bit, I have trouble parsing whether Warsh is deliberately cultivating some sort of opacity here or if he thinks he's being clearer than he is.
Certainly the markets responded to that press conference by not necessarily believing that the Fed is going to do whatever it takes to quote another Fed chair to get inflation under control in the near term.
And that's why you saw yesterday long term yields go up and then today kind of across the yield curve yield interest rates go up.
I think it's probably the latter.
We did have a respite for a while in gas prices.
So maybe it's partly that.
I'd have to look at the actual survey dates, you know, because some of this is pretty sensitive to when the survey was fielded and what were the gas prices that day.
And prices have gone down and they've been creeping back up again.
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