On the recordJuly 1, 2025
So we didn't overreact — in fact, we didn't react at all. We're simply taking some time.
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cbsnews.comSo we didn't overreact — in fact, we didn't react at all. We're simply taking some time.
Powell stated the Fed's cautious approach regarding interest rates.
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Job growth, he said, has slowed considerably and that the downside risks to employment are rising.
Part of that is due to the start-stop nature of the tariffs that have been introduced.
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If we're going to do that successfully, we need to do it in a completely nonpolitical way, which means we don't take sides, we don't play one side against the other, we stay out of issues that are really not our bailiwick.