{"id":56433,"date":"2025-10-05T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/56433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:08:13","slug":"trump-economist-faces-uphill-battle-to-slash-rates-using-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/56433\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Economist Faces Uphill Battle to Slash Rates Using Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AF7uNtxCFaA\/chris-anstey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-09-30\/mailto:ecodaily@bloomberg.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">ecodaily@bloomberg.net<\/a>. And if you aren\u2019t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/new-economy-daily?source=ecointro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It might be said there are two types of approaches to setting monetary policy. One involves absorbing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-29\/us-shutdown-risks-delaying-economic-data-like-jobs-report-inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5576,114,1580,5603,184,4318,234,85,932,4486,46,10361,17256,7734],"class_list":["post-56433","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-il","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-israel","tag-monetary-policy","tag-stephen-miran","tag-u-s-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56433","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=56433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}