{"id":62170,"date":"2025-10-05T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:09:18","slug":"trump-economist-faces-uphill-battle-to-slash-rates-using-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62170\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Economist Faces Uphill Battle to Slash Rates Using Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m Chris Anstey<\/a>, an economics editor in Boston, and today we\u2019re looking at the debate over the \u201cneutral\u201d interest rate. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net<\/a>. And if you aren\u2019t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It might be said there are two types of approaches to setting monetary policy. One involves absorbing incoming data<\/a>, judging the likely trajectory for things like inflation, unemployment and growth, and making your best call. Another takes all of that on board, but puts a premium on a benchmark reference point: the neutral interest rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston, and today we\u2019re looking at the debate over the \u201cneutral\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9799,72,11507,4990,113,1961,1523,61,1095,5232,60,5231,22855,11504],"class_list":["post-62170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boston","tag-business","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-federal-reserve","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-ireland","tag-monetary-policy","tag-stephen-miran","tag-u-s-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}