Bloomberg&#x27;s Lisa Abramowicz and Scarlet Fu discuss remarks from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh following the Federal Reserve&#x27;s latest policy decision on a special edition of Bloomberg Surveillance. Warsh vowed to restore price stability following his first policy meeting since taking the helm of the US central bank, after officials left interest rates unchanged and signaled growing support for rate hikes this year. “Persistently high prices are a burden for the American people, but the recent past need not be prologue,” Warsh said in his debut press conference as chairman. Officials “are unambiguous and unanimous. This committee will deliver price stability.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Instant Reaction: Kevin Warsh's First News Conference as Fed Chair

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## Participants

- **Lisa Abramowicz** (Bloomberg)
- **Scarlet Fu** (Bloomberg)
- **Kevin Warsh** (Hudson Institute / Stand for America (mentioned in transcript))
- **Kate Moore** (Citi)
- **Jim Bianco** (Bianco Research)
- **Michael McKee** (Bloomberg)
- **Stephanie Roth** (Wolf Research)
- **Jeffrey Rosenberg** (BlackRock)

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[SPEAKER_04] A new Fed chair in a new era as we do parse through some of the commentary. The Kevin Warsh Federal Reserve is a very different Federal Reserve than the Jerome Powell Federal Reserve. Not only are we looking at a statement that was only 132 words versus the 175 words at the April FOMC meeting, we're talking about a new framework, a new regime, and not giving enemy forward guidance. Because guess what? There's a task force for that.

[SPEAKER_04] Right now, if you take a look at the reaction in markets, they're taking this hawkish tilt and they are running with it. You can see across the board declines on the S&P and the Russell 2000. NASDAQ now little changed as they parse through all of the reactions. When you take a look at the yield space, that's where some of the fireworks are happening. It is yield curve compression time in a massive, massive way. 13 basis point rise on the two-year to 4.18 percent.

[SPEAKER_04] Suddenly, the idea of one rate hike or even more is on the table as this Fed chair talks about how this Federal Reserve has a commitment to the American people to get price stability. And that is their goal. He's poo-pooed some of the dual mandate at the 30-year yield. They like that, down two basis points. And it is dollar strength across the board. A big question, Scarlett Fu, was would the president have any commentary on this? And it turns out that he does.

[SPEAKER_03] He does. He's spoken to reporters several times today. He's at the G7 in France. And he had said that it's all right that they held rates, whatever. He also said that the Fed raising rates is a possibility. It's possible. It could happen. So no sign of anger from him. We do know that Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, had kind of eased the path there...

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