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Fed raises benchmark rate for first time in 3 years... defying Trump's calls for a cut

Fed raises benchmark rate for first time in 3 years... defying Trump's calls for a cut

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September 17th, 2026

Fed raises benchmark rate for first time in 3 years... defying Trump's calls for a cut

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On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2023 in an effort to curb stubbornly high inflation, and the central bank hinted at the possibility of further rate hikes later this year.

์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„(Fed)๋Š” ์™„๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ 2023๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ›„๋ฐ˜์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

With the 0.25 percentage point increase, the Fed's benchmark rate will rise to approximately 3.9%, and over time this could drive up borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards.

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

In its quarterly projections, the Fed also indicated that its rate-setting committee might raise rates a second time, bringing them up to 4.1%.

์—ฐ์ค€์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์น˜์—์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐ์ • ์œ„์›ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ์ธ์ƒํ•ด 4.1%๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ๋„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This measure was announced at a time when Americans were already struggling with 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” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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

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

This amounts to adding yet another potentially dangerous 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” ์…ˆ์ด๋‹ค.

On Wednesday, President Trump sharply criticized the decision, accusing the Fed's top policymakers of seeking to harm him out of political motives.

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

Kevin Warsh, the chairman nominated by Trump, emphasized after the announcement that the economy had shown signs of gaining momentum since the central bank decided to hold interest rates steady at the end of July.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ช…ํ•œ ์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ํ›„ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์ด ์ง€๋‚œ 7์›” ๋ง ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•œ ์ดํ›„ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋Š” ์กฐ์ง์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He also pointed out that inflation remained stubbornly above the Fed's 2% target, with little sign of cooling.

์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๋„ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ 2% ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜๋ฅผ ์™„๊ฐ•ํžˆ ์›ƒ๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ ์กฐ์ง์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh said, "What is clear is that inflation has remained excessively high for an extended period," adding, "We need to be confident that underlying inflation is converging toward our target at a clear and sufficient pace.

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

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

์˜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, said, "Warsh's hawkish remarks on inflation at the post-meeting press conference suggested that he may push for a rate hike at upcoming meetings."

๋ชจ๋‹์Šคํƒ€์˜ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šคํ„ด ์ฝœ๋“œ์›ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜์„ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” "ํšŒ์˜ ํ›„ ๊ธฐ์žํšŒ๊ฒฌ์—์„œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ธ ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝํ•œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Warsh also said that as gasoline prices rose due to renewed conflict between the United States and Iran, this situation persuaded Fed officials to support a rate hike.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋œ ์ถฉ๋Œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜์ž, ์ด ์‚ฌํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ค€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋” ์„ค๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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

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

Speaking to reporters in North Carolina ahead of a midterm election campaign, Trump made no mention of his own policies that had influenced the decision, and instead characterized the historically independent Federal Reserve as just another political actor in Washington.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ ์œ ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ๋…ธ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์—๋Š” ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ์—ฐ์ค€์„ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ •์น˜์  ํ–‰์œ„์ž๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "The board is extremely hostile and highly political.

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

They are doing something unjust.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•œ ์ผ์„ ์ €์ง€๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

They are a bunch of politicians," and added, "They are raising interest rates to make Trump look as bad as possible."

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ •์น˜์ธ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, "๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ๋‚˜์˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋„๋ก ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

Warsh pointed out that other central banks are also raising interest rates in response to global turmoil and rising gasoline prices.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰๋“ค๋„ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ˜ผ๋ž€๊ณผ ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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

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

As the Fed holds its next meeting at the end of October, most economists expect officials to hold rates steady then, given that it falls just a week before the midterm elections.

์—ฐ์ค€์ด 10์›” ๋ง ๋‹ค์Œ ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์•ž๋‘” ์‹œ์ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

However, Wall Street analysts judge that, in light of futures prices, a rate hike by December is all but certain.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์›”์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.

In addition, late on Wednesday the yield on two-year Treasury notes rose from 4.67% to 4.74%, which is another signal that investors are anticipating the possibility of further rate hikes by the Fed.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ 2๋…„ ๋งŒ๊ธฐ ๊ตญ์ฑ„ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์€ 4.67%์—์„œ 4.74%๋กœ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์ด ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, if inflation shows signs of cooling in the coming months, the situation could change.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ์•ˆ์— ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ ์กฐ์ง์„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ๋ฐ”๋€” ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Since taking the helm of the Fed in May, Warsh has been firmly committed to reining in inflation, and he has said 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 ์ „๋…ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ •์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 marks a turning point for Warsh.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ์›Œ์‹œ์—๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ™˜์ ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค.

When he was under consideration by Trump last year, he frequently hinted that the Fed could lower its benchmark rate, aligning himself with the president's calls for lower borrowing costs.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ณ ๋ ค ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถœ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ž์ฃผ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ฐจ์ž… ๋น„์šฉ ์š”๊ตฌ์— ๋™์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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

4์›” ์ƒ์› ์€ํ–‰์œ„์›ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์›Œ์‹œ์˜ ์ง€๋ช…์„ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๋˜ ๋ฌด๋ ต, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” TV ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ์›Œ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธํ•˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด ์‹ค๋งํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

However, on the same day, Warsh testified to the committee that he had never promised Trump a rate cut and that, as Fed chair, he would be an "independent actor."

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

Trump reportedly spoke with Warsh ahead of a vote in North Carolina, telling him, "It's fine for you to vote with the board. It won't be a problem anyway."

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

The ongoing turmoil caused by the war with Iran has pushed the average gasoline price up by more than 7% compared with just a month ago, and there is a risk that it will spread throughout the economy and stubbornly keep broad-based inflation elevated.

์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์€ ํ‰๊ท  ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค 7% ์ด์ƒ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜์–ด ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์™„๊ฐ•ํžˆ ๋†’๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์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€์†ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

According to the indicator favored by the Fed, inflation stood at 3.7% year-on-year in July, up from 2.3% in April 2025, just before Trump announced sweeping tariffs.

์—ฐ์ค€์ด ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ‘œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ 7์›”์— ์ „๋…„ ๋™์›” ๋Œ€๋น„ 3.7%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ง์ „์ธ 2025๋…„ 4์›”์˜ 2.3%์—์„œ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Core inflation, which excludes the volatile food and energy categories, reached 3.3% in July, the latest data available, up from 3% just before the Iran war and well above the Fed's target.

๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ํฐ ์‹ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๊ทผ์› ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์ตœ์‹  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์ธ 7์›”์— 3.3%๋กœ, ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ ์ง์ „์˜ 3%์—์„œ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฐ์ค€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Fed policymakers unanimously supported a rate hike, which stands in contrast to the situation in late July when the central bank held rates steady and three officials dissented in favor of a hike.

์—ฐ์ค€ ์ •์ฑ…์ž…์•ˆ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋งŒ์žฅ์ผ์น˜๋กœ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 7์›” ๋ง ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์„ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์กฐ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

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

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

On Wednesday, the government announced that retail sales surged 1.2% in August compared with the previous month.

์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” 8์›” ์†Œ๋งค ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ „์›” ๋Œ€๋น„ 1.2% ๊ธ‰์ฆํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This indicates that consumers are spending at a healthy pace, despite sentiment surveys showing that Americans feel gloomy about the economy.

์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์šฐ์šธํ•ดํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

Robust spending is a sign that the current level of interest rates may not be strictly necessary to restrain the economy and cool inflation.

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

The Fed stated that "even amid persistently high uncertainty, driven in part by geopolitical developments, domestic spending has remained resilient," which appears to refer to sustained consumer spending and robust investment by major tech companies in artificial intelligence data centers.

์—ฐ์ค€์€ "์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์„œ๋„ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ง€์ถœ์€ ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ง€์ถœ๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

Persistent inflationary pressures are by no means confined to gasoline prices alone.

์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์••๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sustained investment in the AI sector has driven up the prices of computer chips and other electronic equipment, thereby fueling overall inflation.

AI ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ์นฉ๊ณผ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ „์ž ์žฅ๋น„์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ƒ์Šน์‹œ์ผœ ์ „์ฒด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋ถ€์ถ”๊ฒผ๋‹ค.

Tariffs, too, may still be pushing up certain costs; indeed, prices for household appliances surged last month.

๊ด€์„ธ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ „์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

Trump sharply criticized Jerome Powell, Warsh's predecessor, for failing to cut interest rates quickly 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 to Congress last year, though that investigation 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 said, "I have nothing to say about my discussions with the president."

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

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

์ผ์š”์ผ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์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 be particularly pleased about it, but above all, he will defend Kevin Warsh's independence."

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

Walsh may enjoy a certain degree of protection, given that his father-in-law, Ronald Lauder, is a billionaire backer who is both a friend of Trump and a major donor to his campaign.

์›Œ์‹œ๋Š” ์žฅ์ธ์ธ ๋กœ๋„๋“œ ๋กœ๋”๊ฐ€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์— ๊ฑฐ์•ก์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ•œ ์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž ํ›„์›์ž๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, the President asserted that, despite all his grievances, he wants Warsh to be "independent."

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

When explicitly asked whether his confidence in Warsh still held, Trump replied, "Yes."

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

The piece in question was written by Bill Barrow, a journalist who was active in Atlanta.

ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ๊ณ ๋Š” ์• ํ‹€๋žœํƒ€์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ž ๋นŒ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ์šฐ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ž‘์„ฑ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

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Bank of Japan raises policy rate to 1.25%โ€ฆ highest in 31 years

Bank of Japan raises policy rate to 1.25%โ€ฆ highest in 31 years

์ผ๋ณธ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰, ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ 1.25%๋กœ ์ธ์ƒโ€ฆ31๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜

C1Sep 18
Anthropic says its model Claude is helping develop the next version

Anthropic says its model Claude is helping develop the next version

Anthropic says its model Claude is helping develop the next version

C1Sep 18
The Fed's Rate Hike: Reasons and Implications

The Fed's Rate Hike: Reasons and Implications

์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ: ์ด์œ ์™€ ์˜๋ฏธ

C1Sep 17
Jobless claims fall to 196,000, lowest since mid-July... layoffs remain low

Jobless claims fall to 196,000, lowest since mid-July... layoffs remain low

์‹ค์—…์ˆ˜๋‹น ์ฒญ๊ตฌ 19๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œ, 7์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ €์น˜...ํ•ด๊ณ  ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์•„

C1Sep 17
Trump, calling AI risk a 'hoax,' says there is a 'pathological conspiracy' against AI and data centers

Trump, calling AI risk a 'hoax,' says there is a 'pathological conspiracy' against AI and data centers

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„, AI ์œ„ํ—˜์„ '์‚ฌ๊ธฐ'๋ผ ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ AI์™€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” '๋ณ‘์ ์ธ ์Œ๋ชจ'๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด

C1Sep 14
Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Challenge to Maine Lobstermen's GPS Boat Tracking Requirement

Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Challenge to Maine Lobstermen's GPS Boat Tracking Requirement

๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›, ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์–ด๋ถ€ GPS ๋ณดํŠธ ์ถ”์  ์š”๊ตฌ ์ด์˜ ์ œ๊ธฐ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์—ฌ๋ถ€ ๊ฒฐ์ •

C1Sep 14
Houthi rebels seize two strategic Red Sea chokepoints... Middle East situation trends

Houthi rebels seize two strategic Red Sea chokepoints... Middle East situation trends

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ, ํ™ํ•ด ์ „๋žต ์š”์ถฉ์ง€ 2๊ณณ ์žฅ์•…... ์ค‘๋™ ์ •์„ธ ๋™ํ–ฅ

C1Sep 14