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Former Federal Reserve governor (2006–2011) and Wall Street-connected economic adviser, often mentioned as a contender for Federal Reserve chair.
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Kevin Hassett wants Jerome Powell off the Fed board, a move that would let Trump nominate someone to one of the FOMC's 12 votes. Powell voted for the September hike Hassett says he disagreed with, so the seat is worth one dissent until other voters move.
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US employers added 29,000 jobs in September while the Bureau of Labor Statistics cut 60,000 from its July and August counts. With layoffs still falling, the data describe a hiring freeze that argues for slowing headcount plans and holding cuts in reserve.
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Fed policymakers raised rates 12-0 to 3.75%-4% on Sept. 16, and 16 of 18 projected at least one more quarter-point hike this year. Long yields have since risen more than the hike itself, so borrowers have more reason to plan around that projection than around President Trump's complaint.
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Donald Trump wants Jerome Powell forced off the Fed board over a renovation audit and sued if he stays, in a seat whose term runs to January 2028. TD Cowen expects the threat to keep Powell there until at least early January 2027, so Trump gets no vacancy to fill.
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Myriad traders give Bitcoin 48% odds of touching $90,000 in October, a 7.4% climb that is half the month's median gain since 2013. Rates explain that discount better than fund flows do, since September's spot-ETF buyers have so far barely sold.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs have taken in about $3.1 billion over nine trading days, lifting their year-to-date net inflows to roughly $1 billion. Ether and Zcash funds slipped into small outflows after week-long inflow runs, in sums too small to show money leaving altcoins for Bitcoin.
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Fed inspector general Michael Horowitz found no crime in the $2.5 billion headquarters renovation and blamed poor project management for its cost. His report moves the argument from Powell's testimony to the budget controls the Fed never put in place.
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Kevin Hassett, the White House's top economist, says three-month core inflation near 2% leaves the Fed little room to raise rates. Wednesday's August PCE release will test his window on the inflation gauge the Fed itself prefers.
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Fed policymakers hiked in September against inflation that supplies about 4 points of the 6%-plus nominal growth now outrunning a 5.16% 10-year yield. With the $2 trillion deficit adding about 5% a year to the debt, a slowdown that leaves yields near 5% would push the debt ratio up.
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New York Fed President John Williams called one more rate hike this year reasonable, citing AI investment demand and energy prices with inflation at 3.4%. Sixteen of 18 Fed officials project at least one more move, so borrowers should plan on a policy range of 4% to 4.25% or higher by year-end.
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Core services and a sudden run-up in computer prices are holding the Fed's preferred gauge 1.35 points above target. Futures put the September choice at hold or hike.
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Bitcoin's spot funds gave back $201.9 million on Friday, four-fifths of it from two sponsors, while ether's kept taking money into a book sitting barely 7% above what its buyers have paid in. That is a thin cushion for a 10-day streak.
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The 10-year Treasury touched 4.92% on Thursday, its highest since 2023, with oil back above $100 a barrel. Fed funds futures put next week's hike odds near two in three, and the long end has already moved.
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Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin said tariffs, gasoline and AI spending are keeping inflation up after the Fed's first rate increase since mid-2023. Planning for cuts now means betting against the persistence Barkin described.
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The Fed's quarter-point hike arrived with a projections table carrying eighteen members' views of where rates finish the year and none from Kevin Warsh, who rejects forward guidance and says the next decision follows the data.
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Oaktree's co-chairman has wanted a non-activist Fed for years, and the Fed he is endorsing has been open four months, with five task forces, one Jackson Hole speech and a single unanimous hike behind it.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said hyperscaler fundraising partly explains rising yields, as companies add about six times the Treasury's increase in bond supply. Pension funds and insurers that buy 30-year paper are being asked to fund both borrowers from a pool Employ America's Skanda Amarnath calls finite.
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Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday that humans, not the AI, are responsible, and that developers should not expect federal protection from liability. The industry's demand for a shield now has a public no from Treasury.
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The Fed took its target range to 3.75-4.00% on September 16 and raised its median PCE forecast to 3.7% in the same document, so the real cost of holding a metal that pays no coupon moved by about a sixth of a point.
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Bond traders price about 100bp of further Fed hikes by next summer, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 121bp to 5.18% since the attack on Iran. Borrowers who planned around cuts are now betting against a Fed that voted unanimously to hike eight days ago.
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