{"id":112134,"date":"2025-02-20T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=112134"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:51:31","slug":"musalem-flags-upside-inflation-risks-warns-of-stagflation-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/musalem-flags-upside-inflation-risks-warns-of-stagflation-threat\/02\/20\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Official Flags Upside Inflation Risks, Warns of Stagflation Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem expressed concerns Thursday about the potential for persistent inflation and the risk of stagflation, posing a dual challenge to the US economy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the need for confidence that inflation is headed back to the Fed&#8217;s 2% target before any further policy adjustments are considered, advocating for a patient approach.<br><br>While his base case remains for inflation to return to the 2% target, Musalem sees the risks as skewed to the upside.  He noted the rise in inflation expectations, suggesting that if this trend continues, it could complicate the Fed&#8217;s efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, he highlighted scenarios where progress on lowering inflation stalls, or even worse, where inflation accelerates alongside a weakening labour market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem expressed concerns Thursday about the potential for persistent inflation and the risk of stagflation, posing a dual challenge to the US economy. He emphasized the need for confidence that inflation is headed back to the Fed&#8217;s 2% target before any further policy adjustments are considered, advocating for a patient &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":112146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[6885,7628],"class_list":["post-112134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-fed","tag-stagflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112147,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112134\/revisions\/112147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}