{"id":299119,"date":"2026-02-19T11:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:59:06","slug":"fed-displays-a-hawkish-tilt-amid-inflation-fear-evening-briefing-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299119\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Displays a \u2018Hawkish Tilt\u2019 Amid Inflation Fear: Evening Briefing Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Donald Trump has spent his second term pushing for Federal Reserve rate cuts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-18\/fed-minutes-show-several-officials-point-to-rate-hike-scenario\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">he hopes will reignite an economy<\/a> that a few years ago boasted unemployment lower than at any time since the Nixon administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A lot of that effort has focused on trying to push out the central bank\u2019s current members with insults, threats, attempted firings and even an unprecedented criminal probe by his Justice Department. But even now, Fed officials are signaling renewed worries over inflation, with \u201cseveral\u201d policymakers suggesting the central bank may need to raise interest rates again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has spent his second term pushing for Federal Reserve rate cuts he hopes will reignite an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23549,95068,114,1580,184,11157,4318,85,9174,932,4486,46,18300,7734],"class_list":{"0":"post-299119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-briefing","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-european-central-bank","14":"tag-federal-reserve","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-inflation","18":"tag-interest-rates","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-new-jersey","21":"tag-u-s-democrats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299119","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=299119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}