{"id":260484,"date":"2026-01-27T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/260484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:41:09","slug":"fears-grow-of-rising-us-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/260484\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears grow of rising US inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of experts warned of the risks of inflation accelerating in the US, even as markets bet that policymakers will lower borrowing costs. <\/p>\n<p>Traders are pricing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/markets\/interest-rates\/cme-fedwatch-tool.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">at least two cuts this year<\/a>, believing the Federal Reserve will prioritize a soft labor market. But inflation could yet worsen, two leading economists warned in a LinkedIn post, projecting it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/risk-higher-us-inflation-2026-peter-orszag-c6z8e\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">could top 4% in 2026<\/a>, while Germany\u2019s Kiel Institute projected that the Trump administration\u2019s tariffs meant \u201cUS companies will be confronted with shrinking margins and consumers with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kielinstitut.de\/publications\/news\/americas-own-goal-americans-pay-almost-entirely-for-trumps-tariffs\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">higher prices in the long run<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a note to clients, the investment firm Bridgewater warned that rising protectionism and the race to build out AI infrastructure were both likely to drive inflation.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d6155f5e29c59c263c9f23dbeb0f6e69d60f38c4-1142x1048.jpg\" alt=\"A chart showing the US inflation rate since April 2025. \" width=\"800\" height=\"734\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing number of experts warned of the risks of inflation accelerating in the US, even as markets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-260484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}