James (Jim) Bullard

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99 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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Bloomberg Talks · Former St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard Talks Basis Points · 22 Aug 2025 podcast
should have longer to play out before you took that step.
Otherwise, it's just kind of the Wild West, and she could get reinstated later, I guess, or something if there wasn't a conviction.
So it seems messy to me.
I think these kinds of charges are made from time to time against various officials around Washington, but I'd like to see due process there.
Well, that would definitely be a concern.
And that's the tricky part of this business is that, you know, you think you're pursuing a dovish policy at the short end, but the long end goes up because inflation expectations start to rise, markets start to lose momentum.
confidence in the Fed and the credibility of the Fed.
And that can go very, very badly and unfortunately fairly quickly.
So I think you do have to be careful here.
But I'm saying that I think the committee has room to maneuver if they proceed carefully over the remainder of 2025 and the first half of 2026.
Yeah, I've threatened to, while I was president, I threatened to withdraw from the dot plot.
I think this could be done better.
This was discussed at the Framework Conference, and former chair Bernanke gave a very nice presentation and talk about a quarterly monetary policy report, get more organized about it, put out a forecast.
I think all of that could be done.
I've advocated that for a long time, and...
So I think that would sort of clear up some of the misconceptions around the dot plot.
Yeah, I think regime switching is a great way to think about the global economy and the U.S.
economy and how it operates.
There are relatively long periods of time where
You might have, let's say, slow growth and very low interest rates, and then you might switch to another time with faster growth and higher interest rates.
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