{"id":435404,"date":"2026-08-04T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-paulson-for-me-the-vote-was-not-a-close-call-435404\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:00:11","slug":"feds-paulson-for-me-the-vote-was-not-a-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-paulson-for-me-the-vote-was-not-a-close-call-435404\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Paulson: For me, the vote was not a close call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Inflation is too high, wants to bring it down<\/li>\n<li>This is a complicated time for monetary policy<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a low-hire, low-fire economy<\/li>\n<li>I hear from price setters that they don&#8217;t feel like they can pass on cost increases to consumers<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m weighing that out agains the AI boom and stock markets<\/li>\n<li>Has an open-mind where rate policy is going<\/li>\n<li>For me, the vote was not a close call<\/li>\n<li>I see underlying inflation in the 2.4-2.8% range<\/li>\n<li>If we don&#8217;t see progress, then we need to act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation is too high, wants to bring it down This is a complicated time for monetary policy It&#8217;s a low-hire, low-fire economy I hear from price setters that they don&#8217;t feel like&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-435404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435404","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=435404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}