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New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh faces pressure to clarify his views on inflation and interest rates.

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh faces pressure to clarify his views on inflation and interest rates.

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August 27th, 2026

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh faces pressure to clarify his views on inflation and interest rates.

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New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh talks much less about the economy and inflation than his predecessors did.

์ƒˆ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„ ์˜์žฅ ์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ์ „์ž„์ž๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฒฝ์ œ์™€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œํ†ต ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Economists and Wall Street investors are not happy with this approach. His Friday speech at the Jackson Hole symposium is expected to be a key test.

๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ ‘๊ทผ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ์žญ์Šจํ™€ ์—ฐ๋ก€ ์‹ฌํฌ์ง€์—„ ์—ฐ์„ค์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œํ—˜๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ „๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

At his last press conference, Wash repeatedly avoided questions about whether he would raise interest rates if inflation stayed high. This caused confusion.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ๊ธฐ์žํšŒ๊ฒฌ์—์„œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๋†’๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๋ฉด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ• ์ง€ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํšŒํ”ผํ•ด ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ํ‚ค์› ๋‹ค.

He refused to give 'forward guidance' on whether the Fed would raise, cut, or hold rates. He said such guidance limits policy flexibility.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒยท์ธํ•˜ยท๋™๊ฒฐ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ '์ „๋ฐฉ์œ„ ์ง€์นจ'์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ง€์นจ์ด ์ •์ฑ… ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œํ•œํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Some economists think Wash can reveal more about his policy views without stating his future moves.

์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์›€์ง์ž„์„ ๋ฐํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ์ •์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋” ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

David Wilcox of the Peterson Institute says Wash should clarify the framework guiding his monetary policy, but notes he refused even that.

ํ”ผํ„ฐ์Šจ ๊ตญ์ œ๊ฒฝ์ œ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์˜ ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ์œŒ์ฝ•์Šค๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ†ตํ™”์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ด๋Œ ๊ฐœ๋…์  ํ‹€์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์กฐ๋ช…์กฐ์ฐจ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

It is unclear whether Warsh will provide clarity on Friday.

์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ๋ช…ํ™•์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ• ์ง€๋Š” ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•˜๋‹ค.

He said last month that he wants his speech to focus on 'big questions'. These include how the world economy deals with AI, productivity, demographic changes, and the shock of the Iran war.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ์—ฐ์„ค์ด AI, ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ, ์ธ๊ตฌ ๋ณ€ํ™”, ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์˜ ๋Œ€์‘ ๊ฐ™์€ 'ํฐ ์งˆ๋ฌธ'์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Inflation cooled after gasoline prices surged in May and June, but it still remains above the Fed's 2% target.

์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ 5์›”๊ณผ 6์›” ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ ํ›„ ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ๋์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ 2% ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์›ƒ๋ˆ๋‹ค.

According to surveys, most Americans see the financial burden of essentials like gasoline, groceries, and housing as a major economic issue.

์„ค๋ฌธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์€ ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ , ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ, ์ฃผํƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•„์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

When Warsh spoke publicly at a press conference on July 29, interest rates rose. After the Fed kept its benchmark rate unchanged, mortgage costs also went up.

์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ 7์›” 29์ผ ๊ธฐ์žํšŒ๊ฒฌ์—์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ์„คํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•œ ํ›„ ์ฃผํƒ ๋‹ด๋ณด ๋Œ€์ถœ ๋น„์šฉ๋„ ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.

Jenaedi Goldberg of TD Securities said Warsh effectively lost the market during his speech. He also failed to answer how he would achieve the goal of lowering inflation.

TD์ฆ๊ถŒ์˜ ์ œ๋‚˜๋”” ๊ณจ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์„ค ์ค‘ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์žƒ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ• ์ง€ ๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh told reporters he tends to raise interest rates in response to rising core inflation. He didn't say whether he thinks it's getting worse or how he measures it.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์ € ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์ƒ์Šนํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ € ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์•…ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋‚˜ ์ธก์ • ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฐํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

He mentioned the personal consumption expenditures price index as a way to judge inflation, but suggested that could change next year.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ํŒ๋‹จ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ์†Œ๋น„์ง€์ถœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚ด๋…„์— ๋ฐ”๋€” ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์‹œ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh was asked whether he would support raising interest rates to fight ongoing inflation. He said it could be part of the solution, but not the only one.

๊ณ ์งˆ์ ์ธ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋งž์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ• ์ง€ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹จ๋…์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Some observers took this to mean he was considering other measures, such as reducing the Fed's large bond holdings.

์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ตญ์ฑ„ ๋ณด์œ  ์ถ•์†Œ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

As President Donald Trump kept demanding rate cuts, questions about Warsh grew.

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธํ•˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์›Œ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์˜๋ฌธ์€ ์ปค์กŒ๋‹ค.

Trump keeps defending Warsh, but he has criticized other Fed officials who support rate hikes. He is also pushing again to remove board member Lisa Cook, who was appointed by former President Biden.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์›Œ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ๋ณ€ํ˜ธํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ์ค€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์„ ๋น„๋‚œํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ „์ž„ ๋ฐ”์ด๋“  ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ž„๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ์ฟก ์ด์‚ฌ ํ•ด์ž„์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Diane Swonk of KPMG wrote that politics is making the Fed's credibility problem worse. She said Warsh's speech is a chance to show independence from political interference.

KPMG์˜ ๋‹ค์ด์•ค ์Šค์›ฝํฌ๋Š” ์ •์น˜๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ค‘์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์›Œ์‹œ์˜ ์—ฐ์„ค์ด ์ •์น˜์  ๊ฐ„์„ญ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ž„์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ผ๋‹ค.

Economists say the Fed only needs to state more clearly how it will react when inflation stays high.

๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๋†’๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋  ๋•Œ ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ• ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋งŒ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Wilcox pointed out that this is not radical, and the problem is that he said nothing.

์œŒ์ฝ•์Šค๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ธ‰์ง„์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

If Warsh eases concerns, long-term rates could fall slightly. But in recent weeks, long-term rates have risen steadily due to bigger U.S. government deficits and AI infrastructure borrowing.

์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ํ•˜๋ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏธ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ ์ž ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ์ฐจ์ž… ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Last week, the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level in 19 years. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made unusual efforts to buy bonds and lower yields.

์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ 30๋…„ ๋งŒ๊ธฐ ๊ตญ์ฑ„ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 19๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์Šค์ฝง ๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ ์žฌ๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€์€ ๊ตญ์ฑ„๋ฅผ ๋งค์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ด๋ก€์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์˜€๋‹ค.

Derek Tang of Monetary Policy Analytics said that if rates do not rise when Warsh speaks, that alone would be a win.

๋จธ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ํด๋ฆฌ์‹œ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌํ‹ฑ์Šค์˜ ๋ฐ๋ฆญ ํƒ•์€ ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์„คํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์Šน๋ฆฌ์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's Efforts to Calm the Bond Market Haven't Worked So Far

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