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Fed Chair Powell avoided answering Senate questions about inflation, AI, and contact with Trump.

Fed Chair Powell avoided answering Senate questions about inflation, AI, and contact with Trump.

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July 16th, 2026

Fed Chair Powell avoided answering Senate questions about inflation, AI, and contact with Trump.

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Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve chair, avoided giving specific answers to difficult questions at a Senate hearing.

์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„ ์˜์žฅ์€ ์ƒ์› ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ์—์„œ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์šด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๊ตฌ์ฒด์  ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ํ”ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The questions included how artificial intelligence affects inflation.

์งˆ๋ฌธ์—๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

There was also a question about whether he had contact with President Trump.

๋˜ํ•œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ์˜ ์ ‘์ด‰ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He has said that since taking office, he will give less guidance on interest rate changes.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ทจ์ž„ ์ดํ›„ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์›€์ง์ž„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์นจ์„ ๋œ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜€ ์™”๋‹ค.

Chair Warsh also mostly avoided explaining possible economic changes.

์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์€ ์ž ์žฌ์  ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ค๋ช…๋„ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํšŒํ”ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This disappointed Fed watchers.

์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค€ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์ž๋“ค์„ ์‹ค๋ง์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

Chairman Wall said something about the effect of AI infrastructure investment.

์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์€ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํˆฌ์ž ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "We do not see a one-time price change as inflation."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He added, "Prices may rise over the next 12 months."

๊ทธ๋Š” "ํ–ฅํ›„ 12๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

But he said, "Whether that is inflation depends on the Fed's judgment."

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ "๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ธ์ง€๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ํŒ๋‹จ์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

High-tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers.

์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ์ˆ˜์ฒœ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

This has caused the cost of computer memory and chips to rise sharply.

์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์นฉ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๊ธ‰๋“ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Companies like Apple and Microsoft had to raise their product prices.

์• ํ”Œ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ๋“ฑ์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to the Fed meeting minutes, most members of the rate-setting committee had one opinion.

์—ฐ์ค€ ํšŒ์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ๋ก์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐ์ • ์œ„์›ํšŒ์˜ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜ ์œ„์›์€ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋‹ค.

They believed that AI infrastructure demand would keep pushing up prices for tech products and electricity.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ „๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน ์••๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ดค๋‹ค.

The committee is divided on whether to raise interest rates later this year.

์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Chair Warsh underestimated the positive inflation data.

์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์€ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณผ์†Œํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "These are incomplete measures of the underlying inflation situation."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์ƒํƒœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์™„์ „ํ•œ ์ธก์ •์น˜"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Chairman Wash said that the Fed will use a task force.

์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์€ ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ํƒœ์Šคํฌํฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

He said they will use this task force to decide if inflation will continue.

์ด ํƒœ์Šคํฌํฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์ง€์†์„ฑ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He answered that he will not share the details of his talk with President Trump.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He stressed that he will act independently.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

President Trump has repeatedly attacked former Chair Powell.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ „์ž„ ์˜์žฅ ํŒŒ์›”์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฒฉํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

He said that Powell did not lower interest rates enough.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํŒŒ์›”์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ธํ•˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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