Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Faces Inflation Surge and Market Pressure for Rate Hikes
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Enda Curran, Catarina Saraiva, Greg Ritchie
18h ago· 1 min readenNews
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Summary
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, just three weeks into his tenure, faces a high-stakes conflict between rising inflation (fastest in three years), internal Fed dissent, and bond market expectations of rate hikes by December—all while defying President Trump's calls for lower rates.
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There's growing dissent among the central bank's policymakers.
Investors have been dumping US Treasury bonds and piling into bets the Fed will need to start raising rates by December, defying President Donald Trump's call to lower them instead.
Just three weeks into the job, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is already facing an unusually high-stakes test.
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