{"id":78750,"date":"2021-07-13T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78750"},"modified":"2021-07-13T00:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T04:21:45","slug":"fed-chair-powell-charged-with-convincing-congress-this-week-that-easy-policy-is-still-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2021\/fed-chair-powell-charged-with-convincing-congress-this-week-that-easy-policy-is-still-needed.html","title":{"rendered":"Fed Chair Powell charged with convincing Congress this week that easy policy is still needed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)  It might not be such an easy task this time around. While Powell\u2019s parleys with Congress have been notably genial affairs, there\u2019s at least a chance this time around that the questioning could get a little pointed. Some in congressional leadership, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/newsroom\/minority\/toomey-we-must-preserve-the-credibility-and-independence-of-the-federal-reserve\" target=\"_blank\">particularly on the Republican side<\/a>, have pushed the Fed to start easing its foot off the policy pedal, specifically pertaining to the at least $120 billion a month in bond purchases still in play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/12\/fed-chair-powell-charged-with-convincing-congress-this-week-that-easy-policy-is-still-needed.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) It might not be such an easy task this time around. While Powell\u2019s parleys with Congress have been notably genial affairs, there\u2019s at least a chance this time around that the questioning could get a little pointed. Some in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78751,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750\/revisions\/78751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}