{"id":438582,"date":"2026-09-23T00:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/richmond-feds-barkin-says-inflation-risks-outweighed-employment-risks-in-last-weeks-rate-hike-2-438582\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T00:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:40:21","slug":"richmond-feds-barkin-says-inflation-risks-outweighed-employment-risks-in-last-weeks-rate-hike-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/richmond-feds-barkin-says-inflation-risks-outweighed-employment-risks-in-last-weeks-rate-hike-2-438582\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Fed\u2019s Barkin says inflation risks outweighed employment risks in last week\u2019s rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">Comments from Richmond Fed\u2019s Barkin cross the wires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nThe US central bank raised rates last week because risks to inflation outweigh risks to maximum employment.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nLast week\u2019s rate hike will help restore price stability; we\u2019ll see if more hikes are needed.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nEconomic conditions are, if anything, firming.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\u201cPassing\u201d shocks like tariffs and energy are not fading; there is a risk that high inflation today will impact future inflation.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Analysis: Barkin\u2019s message is hawkish. He sees enough strength in the economy to keep the focus on inflation, while leaving the door open to another hike. For traders, the question is whether inflation begins to stabilize after last week\u2019s move. His comments do not commit the Fed to a further increase.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from Richmond Fed\u2019s Barkin cross the wires: The US central bank raised rates last week because risks to inflation outweigh risks to maximum employment. Last week\u2019s rate hike will help restore&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-438582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438582","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=438582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}