{"id":441660,"date":"2026-11-05T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barkin-gradual-pace-of-hikes-makes-sense-441660\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:40:06","slug":"feds-barkin-gradual-pace-of-hikes-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-barkin-gradual-pace-of-hikes-makes-sense-441660\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Barkin: Gradual pace of hikes &#8220;makes sense&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Policy is somewhere around neutral<\/li>\n<li>The path on policy is straightforward, the issue is pace and gradual &#8220;makes sense&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Do not anticipate inflation will accelerate but also don&#8217;t see it as falling at this point<\/li>\n<li>The set of costs pressures of the psat 18 months, starting with tariffs, are broad based and firsm feel they have to pass them along<\/li>\n<li>Earnings remain strong and that is encouraging firms to invest and hold onto workers<\/li>\n<li>AI is a big part of current strong demand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nice to see a Fed official calling it artificial intelligence rather than super intelligence. At least there&#8217;s still some independence left. Meanwhile, the talk of &#8216;gradual&#8217; hikes helps to lock in the December hike view, which is already at 82% but you could argue it means that the 62 bps priced in for the next year isn&#8217;t enough. Of course, that likely depends on what happens on inflation, tariffs and war.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy is somewhere around neutral The path on policy is straightforward, the issue is pace and gradual &#8220;makes sense&#8221; Do not anticipate inflation will accelerate but also don&#8217;t see it as falling&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-441660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441660","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=441660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}