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Claudia Sahm
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macro, fiscal, Fed. creator of the Sahm rule recession indicator. Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM) Substack.

Claudia Rae Sahm is an American economist, currently serving as Chief Economist for New Century Advisors. She is also the founder of Sahm Consulting. Claudia was formerly director of macroeconomic policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and a Section Chief at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where she worked in various capacities from 2007 to 2019. Sahm specializes in macroeconomics and household finance. She is best known for the development of the Sahm rule, a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) indicator for identifying recessions in real-time. .. more

Economics 57%
Business 32%

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Powell‘s words are clear and chilling.

The Fed can’t defend itself from the White House. The Senate and the courts will have to step up. Will they?
"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com

The tell this is pure politics? “One year cap.” No one who thinks a cap is good for people would endorse it for one year. That’s actually even worse economics.

That‘s what this is …

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Move over TACO it’s Big MAC (Midterms Are Coming) time.

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Happy New Year, to you, too!!

It's like saying an institution is under attack, and that any resistance only fuels it. Uh ok?

And the resistance now at the Fed? The 'audacious act' of focusing on their work and not the circus of Fed Chair sweepstakes.

"Staying would be on overtly political move, one that would buck recent institutional tradition and open the Fed to even greater political criticism. Powell would then be undermining the very institution he was trying to preserve by staying."

I honestly don't get this argument.

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Will Powell stay on as a fed governor after his term as chair ends?

www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/f...
Will he stay or will he go? Powell is not saying whether he'll stay on Fed board when chair term ends
Fed Chair Jay Powell has so far skirted the question of whether he'll stay on with the Fed when his term ends this year.
www.cnbc.com

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Recessions hit economically vulnerable groups first.

🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.

Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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