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Go to the mountains, come down from 30,000 feet

Claudia Sahm · 17 Aug 2026

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    Kevin Warsh's credibility problem comes from a lack of detail about his proposed changes, not from pursuing process reform itself.

    Their wordsI don't mind the process; it's the lack of details that is endangering Warsh's credibility.

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    Ceding control of the Fed's balance sheet to the Treasury so it can keep interest rates low for more government borrowing would be a real inflation risk.

    Their wordsIf you get in a place where we're handing the keys of the Fed's balance sheet over to the Treasury to say "get interest rates low," because they want to do more borrowing, that's a real inflation risk.

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