Xander Snyder

Warsh (paraphrase): These five task forces are hard at work. I haven't seen anything that would count as final report. But these are huge intellectual investments that I think are going to bear fruit at the next policy juncture. Nov. 16th, productivity and jobs task force will..

Fed Chair Warsh: "New monetary medicine. What's in this package? First, we doubled down on 2 percent inflation target. We own it, we take responsibility for it, and if you think that we're tolerating some inflation target somewhere in the 2s, let us disabuse you of it.

A new Fed meeting schedule in 2027, 2028. Fed Chari Kevin Warsh just announced a change in FOMC meeting schedule. He said that, while 8 meetings is appropriate, in 2027 one of those meetings will focus exclusively on broad monetary policy strategy. At this new type of meeting...

As was widely expected, the Federal Reserve paused again today. Unlike at its September meeting, where the vote to hike by 25 bps was unanimous, there were two dissenters at the October meeting who instead preferred a 25 bps increase. The Fed's press release noted that, while..

Despite the many challenges in the housing market, one fact that has gone less covered is how much equity homeowners currently have across the country. @GenaroVillaJr Villa, the newest member of First American's economist team, points out that this $13.2 trillion dollar...

How much water and electricity do data centers consume, really? For me, it's pretty hard to construct an intuitive sense of scale when units like billions of gallons and terawatt hours are involved. In the latest episode of the #REconomy podcast...