Diane Swonk
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161 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 9 Apr
Diane Swonk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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sort of the sugar high could be very short lived if it only makes inflation stick.
And as I said, inflation is already compounded to the place where most Americans feel that things are out of reach.
And that underscores and undercuts the Fed's inflation fighting credibility.
Well, what's been really fascinating is even as equity market volatility picked up and market showed some jitters, we've seen the markets stay to the same pricing they had on a little over two rate cuts this year and not pricing in more rate cuts due to shifts in Fed independence.
And I think that's important as financial markets think things will stay as they are with the Fed sort of locked step in a deep debate about what they should do with rate cuts going forward.
Exactly.
And I think that's very important for the moment.
That is keeping financial markets from being more volatile.
And that is an important thing right now, given how much we are dependent upon inflation.
financial market strength and the U.S.
economy are so intertwined.
Of course, it's not overall economic growth does not equal the stock market.
But unfortunately, because affluent households are propelling growth so much, it's very important for the overall economy to avoid recession.
We've got 584,000 jobs created in 2025.
That is the lowest level since 2020 and the second lowest level for hiring since the global financial crisis in 2009.
What we did see on the positive side was a rebound in leisure and hospitality leading gains this month, and that's because of the catch-up due to the government shutdown, flight delays, everything like that.
Also, all of the month of December was sort of the entire holiday season was compressed into one month along with holiday travel.
So that showed up in December, that hiring instead of November.
Well, participation in the labor force actually receded in the month of November, so that's the wrong reason to see the unemployment rate go down.
The other important issue in the overall data is that we've seen those people who are having to accept part-time instead of full-time work swelled to almost a million this year.
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