{"id":160172,"date":"2025-09-22T03:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160172\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T03:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:41:24","slug":"summers-says-fed-policy-on-loose-side-inflation-top-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160172\/","title":{"rendered":"Summers Says Fed Policy On \u2018Loose Side,\u2019 Inflation Top Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said Federal Reserve policy is leaning toward being too slack, emphasizing that the US economy\u2019s biggest risks lie in inflation rather than the job market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cMy own guess is that policy is currently a little looser \u2014 looking at all financial conditions \u2014 than people view it as being,\u201d Summers said on Bloomberg Television\u2019s Wall Street Week with David Westin. \u201cThe balance of risks is a bit more tilted towards inflation rather than unemployment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said Federal Reserve policy is leaning toward being too slack, emphasizing that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,20097,5693,164,176,5465,5626,20734,36079,106286,13196,84,106287,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-160172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-federal-reserve","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-interest-rates","17":"tag-jay-powell","18":"tag-job-creation","19":"tag-lawrence-summers","20":"tag-monetary-policy","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-us-securities-and-exchange-commission","23":"tag-wall-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}