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The John Batchelor Show

#MARKETS: FED PAUSE CONTINUES. LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS

The John Batchelor Show

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#MARKETS:  FED PAUSE CONTINUES.  LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.6

Fed likely to pause rate cuts with clouds gathering over the economy is the headline from the Hill.

0:19.5

And I welcome an esteemed columnist from the Hill,

0:22.5

Elizabeth Peake, also writing for Fox News, to comment on the Fed suddenly no longer being

0:28.4

the major story every time the Fed meets. There are other competing narratives, peace in Ukraine,

0:36.8

war in the Middle East, and by the way, have you heard

0:39.8

about tariffs? Liz, a very good evening to you. The Fed is pausing rate cuts, which means they

0:46.6

continue to study the data. What are they looking for, Liz? Good evening to you. Good evening,

0:53.1

John. Well, look, they do have a dual mandate.

0:56.0

So their position is that until the labor market really shows significant signs of weakening,

1:02.6

which has not, they have no reason to step in and cut rates. I would point out that the same

1:09.1

thing could have applied last year,

1:15.4

and they did cut rates by a whole one percentage point over the course of several months. But the reality is right now they appear to be pretty content with the status quo.

1:20.6

One of the reasons the market picked up some steam yesterday and had a good second day

1:25.6

after a pretty awful week last week, is that people

1:29.8

began to think about rate cuts coming later in the year. And remember, you know, we've been back

1:35.6

and forth on this a lot, but there was a period where no one thought anyone was going to be

1:39.6

cutting rates because the economy continued to kind of move along at a pretty good clip and they

1:44.5

trump agenda was sort of engendering a lot of optimism investment etc so because of the tariff

1:53.0

talk uh consumers have gotten more worried about inflation inflation actually is not picked up

1:59.6

the the last couple of readings have actually been quite

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