{"id":447923,"date":"2026-02-04T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:21:07","slug":"labors-economic-policies-under-scrutiny-as-rba-navigates-political-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447923\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor\u2019s economic policies under scrutiny as RBA navigates political pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock inevitably increased interest rates on Tuesday against a backdrop of runaway government spending and weak productivity growth, she could have borrowed a frank warning from the incoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/north-america\/how-kevin-warsh-won-the-race-to-become-trump-s-new-fed-chief-20260201-p5nyl6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">US Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Reserve is not a repair shop for broken fiscal, trade or regulatory policies,\u201d Warsh said when he resigned from his first stint at the Fed 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock inevitably increased interest rates on Tuesday against a backdrop of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-447923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}