{"id":437310,"date":"2026-09-01T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barr-inflation-remains-too-high-if-inflation-does-not-moderate-soon-will-be-time-for-a-hike-437310\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:12:00","slug":"feds-barr-inflation-remains-too-high-if-inflation-does-not-moderate-soon-will-be-time-for-a-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barr-inflation-remains-too-high-if-inflation-does-not-moderate-soon-will-be-time-for-a-hike-437310\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Barr: Inflation remains too high. If inflation does not moderate soon, will be time for a hike."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">Fed Governor Michael Barr\u2019s comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nInflation remains too high.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFavors holding rates steady if confident inflation is moderating.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe labor market is stable, with low unemployment.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe economy is growing solidly, boosted by artificial intelligence investment.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nIf inflation does not moderate soon, it will be time for an interest rate hike.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPersistent inflation above target creates risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">Fed Governor Michael Barr\u2019s comments lean more hawkish, with a rate hike on the table if inflation does not moderate soon. Although he would favor holding rates steady if inflation is moving lower, his warning that persistent above-target inflation creates risks puts the burden on the data to show improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, solid economic growth, AI investment and a stable labor market with low unemployment suggest little urgency to cut rates. The message: steady rates remain an option, but stubborn inflation could make the next move a hike.<\/p>\n<p>US stocks are looking increasingly more fragile at the open with the S&amp;P index now down -55 points or -0.72%. The Dow futures are down -318.70.\u00a0 NASDAQ futures are down -420 points<\/p>\n<p>2 year yield is trading up 2.5 basis points at 4.375%. The 10 year is at 4.784%, up 2.6 basis points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed Governor Michael Barr\u2019s comments: Inflation remains too high. Favors holding rates steady if confident inflation is moderating. The labor market is stable, with low unemployment. The economy is growing solidly, boosted&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-437310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437310","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=437310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}