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What would make Kevin Warsh consider a "Fed put?"

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4.68.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s unclear what Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will do regarding interest rates, but would a “Fed put” actually help promote stability in financial markets? Also in this episode, we look at why fewer teens are getting paid jobs, a decline in single-family homebuilding, prediction markets for natural disasters, traffic expanding way beyond rush hour, and the booming cowboy boot market.


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0:00.0

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0:28.9

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0:33.2

All right, fine.

0:40.5

We'll tell you what Kevin Warsh is thinking, but it's going to take more than five words from American public media.

0:43.2

This is Marketplace.

0:59.4

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizdahl. It is Wednesday, today the very first day of July. It is always to have you along, everybody.

1:09.2

We begin in Centra, Portugal, not far from the capital of Lisbon, but a bit out of the way, perhaps, to be the center of global central banking.

1:12.0

That, nonetheless, is where Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh and his international colleagues found themselves today for a regular confab on the

1:17.4

state of the economic world. Warsh at one point was asked about the risks that he sees out there

1:22.9

right now. I'm not prepared to sort of make a broad comment denoting risks that are available in the system, but I will say this.

1:30.9

This is the biggest time of consequence to each of our economies, I think, in our lifetime.

1:38.1

The global financial crisis of 2008 would like a word, but worse cited AI, persistent inflation, geopolitical dyspepsia,

1:46.0

and the low, higher, low-fire labor market as some of the things he is keeping an eye on.

1:51.6

At his first press conference a couple of weeks ago, War said he's also keeping an eye on Wall Street,

1:57.8

and that is where we're going to spend the first couple of minutes of the program.

2:01.2

Financial market prices are probably the most important source of information to guide central

2:07.6

bankers. So that was a couple of weeks ago. The relationship between the central bank and the

2:11.7

financial markets can be tricky. The Fed doesn't want everybody to think it's worried about

2:16.3

asset prices in the lingo.

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