SCOOP: Warsh is considering reducing the number of policy meetings the Fed holds each year. He raised the idea at this week's meeting, according to four people with knowledge of the situation
Victoria Guida
@vtg2.bsky.social
Economics correspondent and columnist at Politico. Signal: vguida.28
Some lawmakers worry the Department of Housing and Urban Development is too understaffed to quickly issue new rules and implement the new housing bill, aimed at making building and buying homes cheaper and easier. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Congress wants to get more homes built quickly. That might be harder after DOGE.
Washington wants to address the urgent housing supply crisis. A diminished federal workforce could stand in the way.
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A team of economists with Dem ties has crafted a health care proposal designed to reduce medical bills. The central idea: capping the amount of money people pay out of pocket in any month. w/ @davidlim.bsky.social www.politico.com/newsletters/...
An out-of-pocket prescription
A team of economists with ties to the Democratic Party has crafted a health care proposal designed to reduce Americans’ medical bills.
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Some Democratic lawmakers are warning that the Fed's policy of saying less could give Wall Street insiders an unfair edge. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Democrats warn Warsh that 'quieter Fed' could benefit Wall Street
It's the first public test of the Fed chief's ability to manage an institution whose sprawling mandate includes both setting interest rate policy and overseeing banks.
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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” — James Madison Happy 250th birthday, USA 🇺🇸
“.. Trump lacks focus,” a former Trump official told me, with palpable frustration. “Trump had the opportunity to be transformational. Instead, he’s going to be transitional at best.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...
COLUMN: Trump’s economic policy legacy is shrinking. It didn’t have to be this way. The president doesn’t like win-win deals. But he missed a chance to build cross-party support for more populist ideas, writes our @vtg2.bsky.social.
Trump’s Economic Policy Legacy is Shrinking. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way.
The president doesn’t like win-win deals. But he missed a chance to build cross-party support for more populist ideas.
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It’s not hard to imagine an alternative world where Trump actively tried to capitalize on his successful scrambling of GOP orthodoxy by securing legislative outcomes no other president could pull off. That’s not the route he’s taken. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump’s Economic Policy Legacy is Shrinking. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way.
The president doesn’t like win-win deals. But he missed a chance to build cross-party support for more populist ideas.
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Sheila Bair: "'Crypto assets, they aren’t backed with anything but algorithms or a wing and a prayer or a presidential name, or whatever. I’m not a fan of those, and I think there is a lot of risk in that segment of the 'crypto market.'" Good interview
‘Hugely Troubling’: A Former Wall Street Regulator Is Getting Nervous
Are regulators sowing the seeds of another bank bailout?
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.@sheilabair.bsky.social warned about the risky mortgage lending practices that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis Now, the former head of the FDIC is warning that today’s regulators are forgetting the lessons of that painful saga My latest: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Hugely Troubling’: A Former Wall Street Regulator Is Getting Nervous
Are regulators sowing the seeds of another bank bailout?
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Bill Pulte, a regulator charged with overseeing the mortgage market, is taking on a second job acting as the country’s top intelligence official — after rebranding his little-known agency into a major political tool for President Trump. Deep dive by Cassandra Dumay: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
How Trump’s new acting intel chief Bill Pulte won him over
In naming Pulte acting director of national intelligence, Trump is rewarding an operative who has used his perch to try to secure political wins.
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“Gambling feels good right away because it’s the dopamine rush, but it doesn’t build anything.”
‘Everything in Life Should Not Be a Gambling Experience’
There’s supposed to be a line between investing and gambling. Congress might have to define the difference.
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What’s the line between gambling and investing? My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘This Could Get Out of Hand’: Prediction Markets Force the Question on Gambling
There’s supposed to be a line between investing and gambling. Congress might have to define the difference.
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Victoria Guida of @politico.com : An underrated aspect of Powell’s legacy is how he pivoted in key moments when there was evidence that the Fed needed to change course. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
An Overlooked Lesson From Jay Powell’s Fed
Often the best hope for central bankers is to minimize mistakes and stay humble.
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Next month, I will have been covering the Federal Reserve for 10 years. In my latest column, I reflect a bit on an underrated lesson from Jay Powell’s tenure www.politico.com/news/magazin...
An Overlooked Lesson From Jay Powell’s Fed
Often the best hope for central bankers is to minimize mistakes and stay humble.
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Donald Trump is finally getting his new Federal Reserve chief, after more than a year of frustration with Chair Jerome Powell. But the president still probably won’t secure the one thing he wants most www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
Why Kevin Warsh is likely to run afoul of Trump at the Fed
Price spikes because of the war in Iran and internal divisions on the central bank will make it difficult for the incoming Fed chair to cut interest rates quickly.
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“Kevin Warsh is the dog who caught the car. I say that with great affection and sympathy.” My column dispatch from Warsh’s intellectual home: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Affection And Sympathy’: Kevin Warsh’s Friends See Threats All Around Him
In Warsh’s intellectual stomping ground, anxiety runs high about the challenges facing the Federal Reserve.
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Chair Powell says Fed independence is "at risk." "We're having to resort to the courts to enforce our legal — it's not so much independence. It's really the ability to make monetary policy without political considerations ... We've been successful so far, but that's not over."
COLUMN: The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way, but he’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day, writes our economics correspondent Victoria Guida. “Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss.”
How Trump Is Sabotaging Himself on the Federal Reserve
The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way. He’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day.
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President Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
How Trump Is Sabotaging Himself on the Federal Reserve
The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way. He’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day.
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The "incredible zig-zagging employment situation" - my comments to @vtg2.bsky.social at @politico.com on Friday. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump
That report gives the president some useful talking points as polling shows deep dissatisfaction with the state of the economy.
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After an extensive search, POLITICO announced today that Jonathan Greenberger will be the organization’s next Global Editor-in-Chief, effective May 1. bit.ly/4tdYtaz
COLUMN: U.S. trading partners are weighing boxing out Trump on trade, writes our @vtg2.bsky.social. Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.
Carney's Grand Ambition On Trade Does Not Include Trump
Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.
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“I’ve seen the United States as a natural leader of the free world,“ former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told me. “But if the United States wants to retire from that role, then others will have to take over.” My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘If The United States Wants To Retire ... Others Will Have To Take Over’
Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.
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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression." Happy 275th birthday, James Madison!