{"id":436171,"date":"2026-08-13T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barkin-still-an-open-question-on-whether-the-fomc-needs-to-hike-rates-436171\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:40:24","slug":"feds-barkin-still-an-open-question-on-whether-the-fomc-needs-to-hike-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barkin-still-an-open-question-on-whether-the-fomc-needs-to-hike-rates-436171\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Barkin: Still an open question on whether the FOMC needs to hike rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Still an open question on whether Fed needs to hike or if inflation is already on a path lower<\/li>\n<li>There are reasons to think price pressures are embedded, with either weakening demand or a rate hike needed<\/li>\n<li>There are strong arguments that inflation will ease, given modest wage pressure and tariff, oil and other shocks likely to subside<\/li>\n<li>Employment continues to keep up household spending while those who own homes or equities have enjoyed remarkable wealth increase<\/li>\n<li>Aspects of US economy remain a mystery as consumers and overall activity defy shocks<\/li>\n<li>Does not say if he thinks rates will need to rise but notes that &#8220;many&#8221; at the Fed feel current level is restrictive enough to bring inflation down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barkin is a good barometer for the Fed so I take these comments very seriously and it sounds to me like there&#8217;s an emerging to consensus to hold rates rather than to cut. Of course that can change with another month of data or some other shock.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still an open question on whether Fed needs to hike or if inflation is already on a path lower There are reasons to think price pressures are embedded, with either weakening demand&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-436171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436171","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=436171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}