Fed Governor Bowman explains dissent on rate vote, says she’s worried about inflation

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Fed Governor Michelle Bowman said Tuesday she thought her colleagues should have taken a more measured approach to last week’s half percentage point interest rate cut.
The jumbo cut “could be interpreted as a premature declaration of victory on our price-stability mandate,” she said in remarks to a bankers’ group in Kentucky.

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Here’s the inflation breakdown for April 2025 — in one chart

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