{"id":80055,"date":"2021-11-30T01:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80055"},"modified":"2021-11-30T00:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:53:54","slug":"powell-to-tell-senate-omicron-variant-poses-downside-risk-to-economy-complicates-inflation-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2021\/powell-to-tell-senate-omicron-variant-poses-downside-risk-to-economy-complicates-inflation-picture.html","title":{"rendered":"Powell to tell Senate omicron variant poses downside risk to economy, complicates inflation picture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Federal Reserve Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jay-powell\/\">Jerome Powell<\/a> believes that the omicron variant of Covid-19 and a recent uptick in coronavirus cases pose a threat to the U.S. economy and muddle an already-uncertain inflation outlook. \u201cThe recent rise in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of the Omicron variant pose downside risks to employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation,\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/29\/fed-chair-powell-says-omicron-variant-poses-risk-to-economy-complicates-inflation.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell believes that the omicron variant of Covid-19 and a recent uptick in coronavirus cases pose a threat to the U.S. economy and muddle an already-uncertain inflation outlook. \u201cThe recent rise in COVID-19 cases and [&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-80055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80055","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=80055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80058,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80055\/revisions\/80058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}