MNI FedSpeak Podcasts

Olivier Blanchard, the former IMF chief economist, sees only a narrow path to avoiding recession as the Fed will have to keep hiking rates to deal with high and stubborn inflation pressures.

Atlanta Fed economist Brent Meyer tells MNI it's no surprise the September CPI report showed persistently high inflation and that it will likely be months if not another year before inflation responds to rising interest rates.

Toronto Centre President Babak Abbaszadeh discusses training Ukraine’s central bankers on crisis management and helping supervisors worldwide improve policy coordination through the pandemic.

San Francisco Fed economist Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau tells MNI the Fed is seeing an orderly slowdown in the labor market, with job openings peaking for a number of sectors and quits rates falling without layoffs taking off. We also discuss labor participation.

Atlanta Fed Research Director David Altig tells MNI the economy may yet skirt recession as the Fed battles historic inflation, but he admits the path is narrow. 

Danielle DiMartino Booth, a former Dallas Fed advisor, tells MNI the U.S. economy is already effectively in recession but the Fed is going to keep hiking aggressively anyway. 

Atlanta Fed Economist Patrick Higgins talks to MNI about the regional bank's closely watched GDPNow measure, which he said is unlikely to show a recession any time soon. 

Ex-Fed Vice Chair Alan Blinder discusses Chair Powell's hawkish Jackson Hole speech, 'nearly unprecedented' U.S. inflation, and his new book on the history of U.S. monetary and fiscal policy.

Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker talks exclusively to MNI about inflation pressures, the direction of interest rates and financial conditions on the sidelines of the Kansas City Fed's Annual Jackson Hole Symposium. 

Ex-Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn says a very hot labor market makes the Fed's hoped-for "soft landing" even harder to achieve.