Fed’s Kashkari Floats Possibility of No Rate Cuts This Year
- Minneapolis Fed chief says he penciled in two cuts for 2024
- Kashkari questioned need for cuts if inflation moves sideways
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said interest-rate cuts may not be needed this year if progress on inflation stalls, especially if the economy remains robust.
“In March I had jotted down two rate cuts this year if inflation continues to fall back towards our 2% target,” Kashkari said in a virtual event on Thursday. “If we continue to see inflation moving sideways, then that would make me question whether we needed to do those rate cuts at all.”