Catherine Rampell
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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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But they are especially backward-looking right now because...
you know, they just, the sort of erratic policymaking and the on again, off again, on again, off again war with Iran just makes any data imprint extremely perishable, right?
That these snapshots are from a point in time that in some ways is in no way relevant, right?
to the point in time today, much less in the coming months.
So great that the numbers were softer than expected, that inflation was cooler than expected, not as bad as expected.
But since those metrics were calculated, a lot has changed and the war is back on again.
So it's really hard to get too excited by a couple of soft imprints.
Yeah.
Look, he has, as you point out, has been consistent for, I think, over a decade now about not wanting to telegraph, not thinking that the Fed should be telegraphing what it plans to do, which also happens to be a somewhat convenient stance right now, when there may be otherwise some political pressure for the Fed to do things that it is not inclined to do.
So why...
You know, telegraph that in particular, by which I mean, you know, not cutting rates.
So, yeah, I think that he's very hard to get information out of.
But that's that's his goal.
Right.
I mean, and that's usually the goal of airs.
that they don't want to spook markets, they don't want to move markets.
But he is particularly committed to releasing no information at all, whether that means not really answering questions at a press conference, other than we'll have a task force for that, or otherwise deflecting questions on the Hill.
Thanks.
Thanks, Guy.
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