Kevin Warsh Is Rewriting the Fed's Rulebook. Wall Street May Have to Learn to Live Without Its Safety Net.
SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence US Monetary Policy | Global Markets Kevin Warsh Is Rewriting the Fed's Rulebook. Wall Street May Have to Learn to Live Without Its Safety Net. The Fed held at 3.75% to 4.00% on 28 October by a 10-2 vote, and in the same press conference announced that rate-setting meetings will fall from eight to seven in 2027 and six in 2028, the first change to the schedule in 45 years. For 45 years, the Federal Reserve has run on a calendar the whole world could set its watch by. Eight meetings a year, eight rate decisions, and an army of analysts decoding every comma in between. On 28 October, Chair Kevin Warsh told Wall Street that the calendar is about to change . The headline number looks small: one fewer rate decision in 2027, two fewer in 2028. The message behind it is not small at all. Warsh wants markets to stop treating the Fed as a navigation service and start reading the economy for themselv...