Quinton Webb

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45 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 17 Dec

Quinton Webb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ What’s News · Australia Bans Under-16s From Social Media in World First · 10 Dec 2025 podcast

Correct.

So for a while, the Fed has had this kind of difficult trade-off to balance.

But it has been reasonably united behind cuts.

If you recall, there have been two cuts so far this fall.

In the second of those, at the end of October, there were two dissents, actually.

But they were notable because they went in both directions.

So one governor, the governor of the Kansas City Fed, wanted to hold off on a cut.

Jeffrey Schmid.

And then on the other hand, we had Stephen Moran, who is Trump administration economic advisor, who's on leave from that position to serve as a Fed governor.

And he actually dissented in favor of a bigger cut.

So he really thinks the Fed should go big in easing policy.

unquestionably going to factor more into Fed decision making in future.

So Chair Powell's term as chair is up in May, and markets are pretty convinced that his replacement will be Kevin Hassett, a close economic advisor to the president who has shown interest in lowering rates, making policy easier.

And then the Trump administration seems to be considering potential levers it could also pull to change the makeup of the

committee.

More broadly, we've just seen a willingness from the Trump administration, including Treasury Secretary Besant, to be much more vocal about what they perceive as the shortcomings of the Fed and its decision making.

And on both sides, the people who are hawkish and the people who are dovish, we have seen this kind of increasing willingness to be public and

voice your contesting opinion loudly, I think, because everyone feels they need to stake their position.

So we may see, at the very least, a kind of more contentious decision-making process in the months ahead, even before a change of the chair.

WSJ What’s News · ‘Honest and Accurate’: Trump Names His Pick for Labor Data Body · 12 Aug 2025 podcast

There is a kind of bigger picture here, which is that actually response rates for all of the surveys that the BLS and other

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