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AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - Fed rates dissenters make their case for higher rates

Inflation has been too high for too long, and the Federal Reserve should not count on it fading without further action. - That is the argument from the three Fed officials who dissented from the decision led by chairman Kevin Warsh to leave interest rates unchanged this week, preferring instead to raise them. Why it matters: Together, the dissents lay out a blueprint for the Fed's hawkish wing, arguing that repeated supply shocks paired with resilient demand have made inflation too persistent to fade on its own without tighter monetary policy. - The question in the months ahead is whether that argument persuades more policymakers, especially if inflation remains stubborn. - It is worth watching whether they turn out to have momentum…

AXIOS (Neil Irwin) - Why AI makes central banking tougher

Central bankers, as a rule, try to maintain stable prices, a strong job market and a sound financial system. The AI boom is a complexifier on all three fronts. The big picture: AI is blurring the usual indicators that central bankers rely upon to set policy, a new paper from a leading international body finds, simultaneously affecting the supply and demand sides of the economy and driving both structural and cyclical change. - The upshot, per the Bank for International Settlements — the Basel, Switzerland-based central bank for central banks — is that the rules of thumb on which policymakers have long relied are all being shuffled at once. State of play: In the U.S. and other hotbeds of AI innovation, an investment boom in the near…