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In focus Tuesday: a pledge from Kevin Warsh to "get monetary policy right" at the Federal Reserve and eliminate the inflation that has tested the central bank for the past five years.
Warsh called the prior policy approach a "mistake" and said price pressures would become "a thing of the past." The next milestone to watch is a formal policy statement or published guidance that converts Tuesday's directional pledge into specific targets.
The weight of calling prior policy a 'mistake' The framing arrived before any rate decision is on the table, which is precisely the point.
Calling prior Fed policy a "mistake" is a deliberate break from institutional continuity. It means Warsh, rather than inheriting a defensible record, intends to draw a hard line between what came before and what follows.
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