应了那句话，只有永远的利益……
Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller made his strongest call yet for a rate cut in July as he again argued that any inflation from tariffs would be temporary, underscoring a divide within the central bank.
"I believe we should cut the policy rate at our meeting in two weeks," Waller said bluntly in a speech in New York Thursday night, referring to the central bank's July 29-30 policy meeting.
He argued that the Fed’s policy rate should be 3%, which is 125-150 basis points lower than the current rate of 4.25%-4.5%.
Waller’s words carry increasing weight since he is considered to be among the candidates to replace Jerome Powell as Fed chair next May, when Powell’s term is up.
He has been outspoken since the Fed’s last meeting in June about the case for cutting rates sooner rather than later, even saying last week that his opinion was "not political." One of his colleagues, Michelle Bowman, has made the same argument for a July cut.
Their views align with President Trump, who has been hammering the Fed and Chairman Jerome Powell to lower rates by as many as three percentage points.
