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The measures would result in higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected, warned Mr. Powell during an event in Arlington, Virginia on Friday. He has shown concern about the bitter economic perspectives, but his emphasis on the potential inflationary effect of new prices clearly indicated that it was a significant source of anxiety.

“Our obligation is to maintain the long -term inflation expectations well anchored and to ensure that an ad hoc increase in the price level does not become a current inflation problem,” Powell said. The Fed’s mandate includes two objectives, promote a healthy labor market and maintain low and stable inflation.

Before Mr. Trump’s return to the White House, inflation is already stubbornly sticky, remaining well above the 2% lens of the Fed. However, the economy had remained remarkably resilient, which led the Central Bank to adopt a more progressive approach to interest rate reductions which led to that of reductions in January. During this political meeting, Mr. Powell established that the Fed should see “real progress on inflation or, alternately, a certain weakness on the labor market” to restart reductions.

But with the inflation which soared due to prices, it will take tangible evidence that the economy is significantly weakening for the central bank to resume. This could mean that the rate decreases are pushed up to much later this year or even delayed until next year if this deterioration takes time to materialize.

“They will not be inclined to be preventive to reduce rates to avoid what could be a slowdown,” said Richard Clarida, former vice-president of the Fed, who is now a global economic adviser in Pimco, an investment company. “They will actually have to see a real crack on the job market.”

Clarida said that he would seek a “material” increase in the unemployment rate or a “very clear slowdown, if not a contraction” in the monthly growth of jobs to explain what he expected to be an important commitment in higher inflation.

The latest job report, which was published on Friday, showed that on the eve of Mr. Trump’s last price, the job market was far from cracked. Employers added 228,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate reached 4.2% as labor market participated.

Any enthusiasm for the latest data was quickly exceeded by a torrent of concerns about economic prospects – concerns Mr. Trump’s main economic advisers sought to resolve on Sunday.

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council of the White House, recognized that the president’s approach could exacerbate inflation. “There could be a certain price increase,” he said on “this week” of ABC. But he insisted that Mr. Trump’s plan would ultimately reverse a long -term tendency to import products at a lower cost in exchange for job losses.

“We got cheap products at the grocery store, but we then had fewer jobs,” he said.

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, also sought to minimize the prospects of a recession, saying on Sunday in NBC, “Meet the Press” that there would be a “adjustment process”.

Wall Street economists are much darker on the prospects. Many have greatly increased their recession ratings as well as their inflation forecasts. These economists fear that Mr. Trump’s prices, which are a tax on imports, will ultimately only decide consumption expenditure, reduce the benefits of businesses and will potentially lead to layoffs that push the unemployment rate above 5%.

Many in this cohort expect the Fed to quickly lower interest rates, to leave in June. The term markets of federal funds reflect an even more aggressive response, with five five -point discounts at this year.

Michael Feroli, American chief economist at JP Morgan, requires a recession in the second half of this year, growth decreasing 1% in the third quarter and 0.5% in the fourth quarter. During the year, it expects growth to drop by 0.3% and that the unemployment rate reaches 5.3%. Even if the FED’s favorite inflation gauge – once the prices of volatile food and energy are removed – reach 4.4%, Mr. Feroli plans that the Fed will restart reductions in June, then reduce loan costs at each meeting until January until the rate of policy reaches 3%.

Jonathan Pingle, chief economist of the United States in UBS, has crashed a percentage point of discounts this year, even if central inflation reaches 4.6%. It expects the unemployment rate to take higher this year before peaking at 5.3% in 2026. Goldman Sachs economists planned that the Fed would deliver three consecutive quarter drops from July.

But there are credible risks for this perspective. The first is that the inflation shock will simply be too huge for the Fed exceeding it in summer, especially if the economy has not yet deteriorated significantly.

“The burden of proof is now higher due to the inflation situation in which we are,” said Seth Carpenter, a former Fed economist who is now in Morgan Stanley. “They must obtain enough information to convince them that the negative effects of the slowdown – and perhaps negative – prevails over the cost of inflation.”

Carpenter said he did not expect any Fed reduction this year, but several next year, down between 2.5% and 2.75%. Lhmeyer economists, a research firm, also put aside the cuts this year, assuming that there is no “full” recession.

The most important determinant of the moment when the central bank will restart the rate drops is what is happening with the expectations of inflation. Beyond a year in advance, expectations have remained somewhat stable, apart from certain measures based on surveys which are considered less reliable than others.

If these expectations are starting to vacillate more notably, the Fed would become even more hesitant to cut and should see even more economic weakness than usual, said William English, professor of Yale and former director of the Fed monetary affairs division.

Eric Winograd, economist of the Investment Company Alliancebernstein, said that the inflation of Mr. Powell’s inflation on Friday would help avoid this result. “The name of the game is: you speak hard,” he said. “You keep the expectations of inflation where they are, and, in doing so, you preserve your ability to facilitate later if necessary.”

A higher bar for interest rate reductions could put the Fed in a more difficult situation with the Trump administration, said English. Until last week, the president had been more moderate in his criticism of the central bank, compared to his first mandate. He had called for lower interest rates but sought to justify them by pointing to his plans to reduce energy prices, among other reasons.

But as the rout in the financial markets intensified, Trump turned his anger to Mr. Powell and the Fed. Trump said on Monday that the nourished “slow move” is expected to reduce rates. At one point, the president seemed to suggest that the rout of the market was part of his strategy. He circulated a user’s video on the social media network of Mr. Trump who suggested that the president “deliberately crushed” the markets in part to force the Fed to reduce interest rates.

Pressed on Sunday on the issue, Hassett of the National Economic Council answered by saying that the Fed was independent, before adding: “He does not try to land the market.”

Trump has already sought to flourish at the longtime independence from the central Bank of the White House by targeting the surveillance of the Wall Street Fed. His decision last month to dismiss two Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission also largely reverberated, raising important questions about the type of authority that the president has on independent agencies and the staff who directed them.

On Friday, during the event, Powell said that he had the fully intended to serve his entire mandate, which ended in May 2026. It was also explicit that the anticipated withdrawal by the president is “not authorized by law”.

“The risk for the independence of the Fed is now larger,” said English, Professor of Yale. “It just puts them in the shooting line.”