Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist of New Century Advisors joins the team to break down Kevin Warsh&#x27;s first FOMC meeting and press conference. The group covers the rate decision, changes to Fed communications, the dot plot&#x27;s future, and what Warsh&#x27;s balance sheet views signal for monetary policy ahead. The new Chair is in the seat, time will tell if it&#x27;s a comfortable one. Questions or Comments, please email us at InsideEconomics@moodys.com. We would love to hear from you. To stay informed and follow the insights of Moody&#x27;s Analytics economists, visit Economic View. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Breaking in a new Chair

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Welcome to Inside Economics. I'm Mark Zandi, the Chief Economist of Moody's Analytics, and I'm joined by my trusty co-host, Cris deRitis. Hey, Chris. Hey, Mark. How are you doing? Good, good. You're still in a Brutzi? I still am. Yep. Until next week. And you're a wine cellar. Yes. Yeah. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Yeah. With your crypto winnings all around somewhere around you. Oh, now it's all SpaceX, Mark. Oh.

Oh. Yeah. That's even a better trade than Bitcoin or Ethereum. Congratulations on that. I wish it was true. Yeah. Well, so I meant to ask, G7 meeting, what's the Italian perspective on the G7 meeting? Have you been following? I have been. What can I say? The expectation is it's just a meeting. It doesn't really lead

anything conclusive. It's a lot of chatter. It doesn't really affect the common person or business or, uh, so that's the, uh, and then of course there's a lot of behind the scenes, uh, gossip around the different leaders and who sat next to who. Oh, tell, do tell. Do tell, Chris. Oh, yeah. Well, one thing that came up today was that the picture was taken, right? They always take a picture with all the, with all the different leaders, right? They do this group picture.

Right. And apparently after the picture, uh, was taken, the, uh, leaders break off and have their own side conversations and the president of the United States was left kind of alone in this, in this shot. So there was a lot of chatter about what the, what does that mean? House dad. House dad is not. Oh. So, you know, that's the kind of level of discourse that we have wrapped up G7.

Breaking in a new Chair

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The candid version is on a podcast,
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Breaking in a new Chair

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.