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PREVIEW: FEDERAL RESERVE: JEROME POWELL'S WORRIES: Comment by colleague Liz Peek on the possibility of inflation's reemergence after the surprise half-point rate reduction. "It's happened before." More tonight.

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

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PREVIEW: FEDERAL RESERVE: JEROME POWELL'S WORRIES: Comment by colleague Liz Peek on the possibility of inflation's reemergence after the surprise half-point rate reduction. "It's happened before." More tonight.

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0:00.0

This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Elizabeth Peek of the Hill a columnist of Fox News

0:06.2

a columnist about what worries Jerome Pal having raised the issue of what's wrong with the economy as you have to lower the interest

0:16.0

rate by half a point as opposed to the expected quarter point what's wrong with the

0:20.6

economy the concern might be jobs, it might be a re-emergence of inflation.

0:27.4

As Liz explains here, it's happened before. And then trouble. Here's Liz Peek on what worries Jerome Pal, what possibly could go wrong, weeks to the election.

0:41.0

Money cheaper than it was a week ago and more of this tonight.

0:46.0

I mean it because don't forget it's happened before and the reason

0:50.0

J Powell presumably was slow to start cutting rates.

0:54.0

Let's remember this wasn't, you know, an unheard of idea.

0:58.8

The reason he was reluctant to cut rates is because of exactly this, the possibility that inflation, which after all is not yet 2%,

1:06.6

although it's certainly close to it. And by the way, we'll get a big read on that Friday.

1:10.9

The PCE number comes out but the you know we're still we're still

1:17.4

tracking that that inflation number and hoping that it stays under two and a

1:22.2

half three percent because that's kind of where it is.

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