Maintenance in progress

federal reserve chair warsh, in his first fomc meeting, held rates at 3.50-3.75% but stripped the easing bias from the statement and announced five task forces for a wholesale policy review — nine of eighteen officials now project a 2026 rate hike. this reverses the directional signal the fed had been sending for over a year. the removal of easing bias combined with an institutional audit of fed frameworks in a single meeting is structurally unusual; it signals the fed under warsh is reconfiguring its posture rather than continuing on an established path.

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