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Fed, in first rate hike in three years, directly counters Trump's demand for a cut

Fed, in first rate hike in three years, directly counters Trump's demand for a cut

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September 17th, 2026

Fed, in first rate hike in three years, directly counters Trump's demand for a cut

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The Federal Reserve, declaring its unwavering resolve to rein in entrenched high inflation, raised its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday for the first time since 2023, and the central bank hinted at the possibility of further rate hikes later this year.

์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„(Fed)๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์ฐฉํ™”๋œ ๋†’์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ์™„๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ 2023๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์€ ๊ธˆ๋…„ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Fed's benchmark rate will rise to approximately 3.9% on the strength of a 0.25 percentage-point increase, which is likely to drive up borrowing costs associated with mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards over time.

์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 0.25%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ธ์ƒ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ์•ฝ 3.9%๋กœ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฆ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ฃผํƒ๋‹ด๋ณด๋Œ€์ถœ, ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๋Œ€์ถœ ๋ฐ ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ฐจ์ž… ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ฆ๋Œ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Furthermore, through its quarterly projections, the Fed even hinted at the possibility that the rate-setting committee could raise rates on two occasions, thereby lifting them to as high as 4.1%.

๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ค€์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์น˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐ์ • ์œ„์›ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘ ์ฐจ๋ก€์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ธ์ƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ 4.1%๊นŒ์ง€ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋งˆ์ € ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

This measure was implemented at a time when Americans were already suffering from rising costs for groceries, gasoline, and housing.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ, ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๋ฐ ์ฃผํƒ ๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์Šน์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋‹จํ–‰๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

The burden of living costs has emerged as a pivotal issue in the midterm elections, now only seven weeks away.

์ƒํ™œ๋น„ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์€ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ 7์ฃผ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์Ÿ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

This compounds yet another potentially perilous economic variable for the Republican Party and President Donald Trump.

์ด๋Š” ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น๊ณผ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ์ž ์žฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ณ€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์ค‘์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

On Wednesday, President Trump excoriated the decision, denouncing the Fed's top policymakers for seeking to harm him out of political motives.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํžˆ ๋น„ํŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ์ค€ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ •์ฑ…์ž…์•ˆ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ •์น˜์  ๋™๊ธฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ•ด์น˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทœํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Kevin Warsh, the chairman nominated by Trump, emphasized that since the central bank's decision to hold interest rates steady in late July, the economy has been showing signs of accelerating.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ช…ํ•œ ์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ดํ›„ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์ด ์ง€๋‚œ 7์›” ๋ง ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ๋™๊ฒฐ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•œ ์ด๋ž˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์˜ ์กฐ์ง์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ญ์„คํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He also pointed out that inflation, too, remains stubbornly above the Fed's 2% target, with scarcely any indication of cooling.

์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์—ญ์‹œ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ 2% ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜๋ฅผ ์™„๊ฐ•ํžˆ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฏธ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ์ง€๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh remarked, "What is patently evident is that inflation has persisted at an excessively elevated level for an unduly protracted period," adding, "One must be able to be confident that underlying inflation is converging toward our target at a clear and sufficiently brisk pace.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” "๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์†๋˜์–ด ์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ "๊ธฐ์ € ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์†๋„๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Today the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) judged that these criteria have not been met," he appended.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๊ณต๊ฐœ์‹œ์žฅ์œ„์›ํšŒ(FOMC)๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด ์ถฉ์กฑ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

The FOMC is the Fed's policy-making body.

FOMC๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์ •์ฑ… ๊ฒฐ์ • ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋‹ค.

Preston Caldwell, Morningstar's chief U.S. economist, remarked that "the hawkish stance Warsh articulated regarding inflation at the post-meeting press conference was indicative of the likelihood that he would push for rate hikes at forthcoming meetings."

๋ชจ๋‹์Šคํƒ€์˜ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šคํ„ด ์ฝœ๋“œ์›ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜์„ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” "ํšŒ์˜ ํ›„ ๊ธฐ์žํšŒ๊ฒฌ์—์„œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝํ•œ ์ž…์žฅ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh further remarked that the renewed clashes between the United States and Iran, which had driven up gasoline prices, helped persuade Federal Reserve officials to endorse a rate hike.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋œ ์ถฉ๋Œ์ด ์—ฐ์ค€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๋“ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ผ์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "There is nowhere to hide in the world's hot spots."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ะณะพั€ัั‡ะธะต ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ์ˆจ์„ ๊ณณ์€ ์—†๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on the eve of the midterm election campaign, Trump sidestepped any mention of his own policies that had shaped the decision, instead casting the Federal Reserve โ€” an institution that has historically maintained its independence โ€” as just another political actor in Washington.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ ์œ ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘” ์‹œ์ ์— ๋…ธ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐœ์–ธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ธ๊ธ‰์„ ํšŒํ”ผํ•œ ์ฑ„, ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€ํ•ด ์˜จ ์—ฐ์ค€์„ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ •์น˜์  ํ–‰์œ„์ž๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He declared, "The board is extremely hostile and utterly political.

๊ทธ๋Š” "์ด์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ์ ๋Œ€์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ์ •์น˜์ ์ด๋‹ค.

They are perpetrating unjust actions, and they are nothing more than a cabal of politicians," and he added, "They are raising interest rates so as to bring about the worst possible outcome for Trump."

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•œ ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ์žํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ •์น˜์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์ง‘๋‹จ์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, "๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ์ตœ์•…์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ถ€์—ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh observed that other central banks, too, are raising interest rates in response to turmoil in global financial markets and the surge in gasoline prices.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ์—ฌํƒ€ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰๋“ค ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ธˆ์œต์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ž€๊ณผ ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์— ๋‚˜์„œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The European Central Bank raised its benchmark rate last week, and the Bank of Japan is likewise expected to take the same step on September 18.

์œ ๋Ÿฝ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์€ ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰ ์—ญ์‹œ 9์›” 18์ผ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ง๋œ๋‹ค.

The Fed is scheduled to convene its next meeting at the end of October, and the majority of economists anticipate that officials will hold rates steady at that gathering, given that the midterm elections will be merely a week away.

์—ฐ์ค€์€ 10์›” ๋ง์— ์ฐจ๊ธฐ ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ์†Œ์ง‘ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค์€ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ ์‹œ์ ์— ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

By contrast, Wall Street analysts, judging from futures prices, consider a rate hike by December to be all but a certainty.

๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ ๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋น„์ถ”์–ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ 12์›”๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ™•์‹ค์‹œ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•œ๋‹ค.

Moreover, in the latter part of Wednesday's trading session, the yield on two-year Treasury notes climbed from 4.67% to 4.74%, which is interpreted as yet another indicator that investors are pricing in the possibility of further rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

๋”๋ถˆ์–ด, ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์žฅ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์— 2๋…„๋ฌผ ๊ตญ์ฑ„ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์€ 4.67%์—์„œ 4.74%๋กœ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์ด ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋œ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, should inflation show signs of abating over the coming months, the situation could well take a turn.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐœ์›” ๋‚ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์ง„์ • ๊ธฐ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ตญ๋ฉด์€ ์ „ํ™˜๋  ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Since assuming leadership of the Fed in May, Warsh has remained resolutely committed to reining in inflation, and he has consistently stated that policymakers will consult the data to determine whether inflation is moving in the right direction.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” 5์›” ์—ฐ์ค€์„ ์ด๋Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ดํ›„ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์žก๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ™•๊ณ ํžˆ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ •์ฑ…์ž…์•ˆ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด์™”๋‹ค.

This rate hike can be regarded as a turning point for Warsh.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ์›Œ์‹œ์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์ ์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

When he was under consideration by Trump last year, he frequently hinted that the Fed might cut its benchmark rate, thereby catering to the president's demand for low borrowing costs.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ณ ๋ ค ๋Œ€์ƒ์— ์˜ฌ๋ž์„ ๋‹น์‹œ, ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธํ•˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํžˆ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ฐจ์ž… ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋ถ€์‘ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

In April, while the Senate Banking Committee was reviewing Warsh's nomination, Trump declared in a television interview that he would be disappointed if Warsh did not cut interest rates.

4์›” ์ƒ์› ์€ํ–‰์œ„์›ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์›Œ์‹œ์˜ ์ง€๋ช…์„ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๋˜ ๋‹น์‹œ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” TV ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธํ•˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‹ค๋งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

That same day, however, Warsh testified before the committee that he had never promised Trump a rate cut and that he would remain an "independent actor" as Fed chair.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚  ์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด, ์ž์‹ ์ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธํ•˜๋ฅผ ์•ฝ์†ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ "๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ํ–‰์œ„์ž"๋กœ ๋‚จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง„์ˆ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

It has been reported that Trump, at a time when a vote in North Carolina was imminent, conversed with Warsh and remarked to him, "You may as well vote with the board. It won't matter anyway."

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๋…ธ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์—์„œ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘” ์‹œ์ ์— ์™€์‹œ์™€ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ "์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•ด๋„ ๋ฌด๋ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค. ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

The persistent turmoil precipitated by the war with Iran has driven the average gasoline price up by more than 7 percent compared with just a month earlier, and there is a threat that it will ripple through the economy at large, keeping broad-based inflation stubbornly elevated.

์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๋ž˜๋œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์€ ํ‰๊ท  ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ์ „ ๋Œ€๋น„ 7% ์ด์ƒ ์ƒ์Šน์‹œ์ผฐ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ํŒŒ๊ธ‰๋˜์–ด ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์™„๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€์‹œํ‚ฌ ์œ„ํ˜‘์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Last week's inflation report showed that core prices, which exclude food and energy, accelerated somewhat in August.

์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ์‹ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๊ทผ์› ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 8์›”์— ๋‹ค์†Œ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

According to the gauge favored by the Federal Reserve, inflation stood at 3.7% year-on-year in July, marking an increase from the 2.3% recorded in April 2025, just before Trump announced sweeping tariffs.

์—ฐ์ค€์ด ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ‘œ์— ์˜๊ฑฐํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ 7์›”์— ์ „๋…„ ๋™์›” ๋Œ€๋น„ 3.7%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ง์ „์ธ 2025๋…„ 4์›”์˜ 2.3%๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

Core inflation, which excludes the notably volatile food and energy categories, came in at 3.3% in July, the latest available data, not only rising from the 3% recorded just before the Iran war but also far exceeding the Federal Reserve's target.

๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ํ˜„์ €ํ•œ ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๊ทผ์› ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์ตœ์‹  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์ธ 7์›”์— 3.3%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ ์ง์ „์˜ 3%์—์„œ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Federal Reserve policymakers unanimously endorsed a rate hike, a striking contrast to the dissent voiced by three officials who favored an increase even as the central bank held rates steady in late July.

์—ฐ์ค€ ์ •์ฑ…์ž…์•ˆ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์— ๋งŒ์žฅ์ผ์น˜๋กœ ์ฐฌ์„ฑํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 7์›” ๋ง ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์„ธ ๋ช…์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๋œ๋‹ค.

Of the 18 Fed policymakers who submitted growth and rate projections, 16 anticipated at least one more rate hike this year, while four advocated for two additional increases.

์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ฐ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ „๋ง์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•œ 18๋ช…์˜ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์ •์ฑ…์ž…์•ˆ์ž ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 16๋ช…์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ตœ์†Œ ํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ก€์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ „๋งํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, 4๋ช…์€ ๋‘ ์ฐจ๋ก€์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

On Wednesday, the government announced that retail sales surged 1.2 percent in August from the previous month, suggesting that consumers are maintaining a healthy pace of spending despite survey findings that Americans harbor a sense of gloom about the economy.

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ, 8์›” ์†Œ๋งค ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ „์›” ๋Œ€๋น„ 1.2% ๊ธ‰์ฆํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์šฐ์šธ๊ฐ์„ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค.

This robust spending trend signals that the current level of interest rates is not necessarily required to restrain the economy and cool inflation.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์ง€์ถœ์„ธ๋Š” ํ˜„ํ–‰ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์•ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋‹ค.

The Fed stated, "Although uncertainty remains heightened owing to geopolitical developments and the like, domestic spending has proven resilient," which appears to point to sustained consumer spending and robust investment by major technology firms in artificial intelligence data centers.

์—ฐ์ค€์€ "์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณ ์กฐ๋œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ง€์ถœ์€ ํšŒ๋ณตํƒ„๋ ฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ง€์ถœ๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

High inflation is by no means a problem confined to gasoline prices.

๊ณ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sustained investment in AI drove up the prices of computer chips and other electronic equipment, thereby exacerbating overall inflation.

AI์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์  ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ์นฉ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ „์ž ์žฅ๋น„์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ƒ์Šน์‹œ์ผœ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

Tariffs, too, may still be adding to certain costs; household appliance prices, for instance, surged last month.

๊ด€์„ธ ์—ญ์‹œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๊ฐ€์ค‘์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ก€๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ „์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Trump excoriated Jerome Powell, Warsh's predecessor, for failing to cut interest rates promptly enough.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์›Œ์‹œ์˜ ์ „์ž„์ž์ธ ์ œ๋กฌ ํŒŒ์›”์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ธํ•˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ˜นํ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

His Justice Department even launched a criminal investigation over a brief testimony Powell gave before Congress last year, though that inquiry was ultimately closed.

๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€๋Š” ํŒŒ์›”์ด ์ž‘๋…„ ์˜ํšŒ์—์„œ ํ–‰ํ•œ ์งง์€ ์ฆ์–ธ์„ ๋ฌธ์ œ ์‚ผ์•„ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ์—๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ข…๊ฒฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

When asked how the president might react to Wednesday's rate hike, Warsh stated, "I have nothing to say regarding my discussions with the president."

์ˆ˜์š”์ผ์˜ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์ž, ์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” "๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ์˜ ๋…ผ์˜์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋“œ๋ฆด ๋ง์”€์ด ์—†๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On Sunday, Kevin Hassett, President Trump's chief economic adviser, was asked in an interview with Fox News how Trump would respond to the rate hike.

์ผ์š”์ผ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๊ณ ๋ฌธ์ธ ์ผ€๋นˆ ํ•ด์‹ฏ์€ ํญ์Šค ๋‰ด์Šค์™€์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.

Hassett said, "He won't express any particular satisfaction with it, but above all, he will champion Kevin Warsh's independence."

ํ•ด์‹ฏ์€ "๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋งŒ์กฑ๊ฐ์„ ํ‘œํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์„ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•  ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Walsh finds himself in a position where he might reasonably expect a degree of protection, given that his father-in-law, Ronald Lauder, is a billionaire patron who is both a friend of Trump and a prodigious donor to his campaign.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์žฅ์ธ์ธ ๋กœ๋„๋“œ ๋กœ๋”๊ฐ€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ด์ž ๊ทธ์˜ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์— ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ•œ ์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž ํ›„์›์ž๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์ง€๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, the president asserted that he wants Warsh to be "independent," notwithstanding that every grievance had been raised.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ "๋…๋ฆฝ์ "์ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

When asked point-blank whether his confidence in Warsh still held, Trump replied, "Yes."

์›Œ์‹œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์œ ํšจํ•œ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์ธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์ž, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” "๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์‘๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This report was filed from Atlanta by the journalist Bill Barrow.

๊ธฐ์ž ๋นŒ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์• ํ‹€๋žœํƒ€์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๊ณ ํ•œ ๋ฐ”์ด๋‹ค.

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