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Fed’s Waller Expects Tariff Impact on Inflation to Be Temporary

Christopher Waller

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller laid out two scenarios for how President Donald Trump’s trade policy could affect the US economy, but said the inflationary impact of either would likely be temporary.

Waller called the new tariff policy “one of the biggest shocks to affect the US economy in many decades,” in remarks prepared for an event in St. Louis on Monday.