Central Banks

Warsh Call for Fed-Treasury Accord Stirs Debate in $30 Trillion Bond Market

Kevin WarshPhotographer: Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg

Kevin Warsh floated plenty of ideas for how he would run the Federal Reserve during his campaign for the job as chair. For Wall Street, few are as cryptic — or potentially consequential — as his call for a new accord with the Treasury Department.

Warsh has voiced support for overhauling the relationship between the two institutions with a new version of an agreement struck in 1951.