Voting Member Fomc James Bullard Sees Slow Growth Rather Than A Recession

Last updated: June 9, 2025, 08:07

Voting Member Fomc James Bullard Sees Slow Growth Rather Than A Recession

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St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told MarketWatch’s economics editor Greg Robb the Fed could slowly raise interest rates to a range of 5 percent

Bullard supports the Fed's 25-basis point hike this week, which pushed its policy rate to 5.00%-5.25%, as expected. Policymakers had said they would will closely

Voting Member of FOMC James Bullard Sees Slow

St. Louis Fed chief tells Minnesota audience slow growth is more

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Instead of a recession

Fed’s Bullard suggests higher rates as ‘insurance’

Instead of a recession, Bullard said, the more likely scenarioor his base caseis for slow economic growth along with a somewhat softer labor market and declining inflation.

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Bullard Provides Context on Federal Open Market

In 2025, Bullard announced a new approach for the St. Louis Fed's near-term U.S. macroeconomic and monetary policy projections. The new approach is based on the idea that the economy may experience one of several possible persistent regimes, which involve a combination of recession or no recession, high or low productivity growth, and high or low real returns on short-term government debt. While switches between regimes are possible, they are difficult to foreca

Fed's Bullard says slow economic growth should be base case, not

Another voting member of the

Another voting member of the FOMC, St Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard, believes the Federal Reserve needs to get inflation back to the 2 percent target.

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