{"id":435201,"date":"2026-08-01T00:13:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/barkin-rate-decision-still-a-close-call-435201\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:13:34","slug":"barkin-rate-decision-still-a-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/barkin-rate-decision-still-a-close-call-435201\/","title":{"rendered":"Barkin: Rate decision still a &#8220;close call&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s a close call&#8221; whether interest rates are high enough.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWould not say whether he would have joined the three Fed officials who dissented in favor of a rate hike.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSkeptical that the labor market has strengthened meaningfully.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPrice increases are continuing to move through the economy unevenly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barkin is sitting on the fence for now and enjoying the view.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a close call&#8221; whether interest rates are high enough. Would not say whether he would have joined the three Fed officials who dissented in favor of a rate hike. Skeptical that&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-435201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435201","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=435201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}