{"id":430045,"date":"2026-05-01T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/feds-logan-fed-should-not-give-guidance-implying-easing-right-now\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:40:05","slug":"feds-logan-fed-should-not-give-guidance-implying-easing-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/feds-logan-fed-should-not-give-guidance-implying-easing-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Logan: Fed should not give guidance implying easing right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dallas Federal Reserve Pres. Lori Logan is exploiting her dissent at the FOMC meeting this week. The vote to keep rates unchanged was 8 to 4 with Fed Miran voting to cut rates while Fed&#8217;s Kashkari, Logan and voted to keep rates unchanged but to take out the easing bias from the official statement.<\/p>\n<p>Logan says: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fed should not give guidance and point easing right now.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s next rate move could be cut or hike.<\/li>\n<li>Economic outlook is very uncertain right now. <\/li>\n<li>Jobs market has been stable.<\/li>\n<li>Increasingly concerned about getting inflation back to 2%.<\/li>\n<li>Outlook for inflation path is uncertain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fed&#8217;s Kashkari and Hammack had similar thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"258\" data-end=\"651\">\n<li data-section-id=\"zcou85\" data-start=\"375\" data-end=\"445\">Kashkari: Pre-Iran: easing inflation and steady jobs pointed to gradual cuts<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"9phmzi\" data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"512\">Iran shock adds stagflation risk via oil and supply disruption<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1v8hn50\" data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"591\">Hammack: uncertainty up, inflation risks skew higher, easing bias outdated<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16t6itu\" data-start=\"592\" data-end=\"651\">Both: hikes are back on the table if inflation persists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Federal Reserve Pres. Lori Logan is exploiting her dissent at the FOMC meeting this week. The vote to keep rates unchanged was 8 to 4 with Fed Miran voting to cut rates while Fed&#8217;s Kashkari, Logan and voted to keep rates unchanged but to take out the easing bias from the official statement. Logan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}