Janet Yellen says America would be ‘lucky to skirt a recession’

• Janet YellenThe former Federal Reserve Chairman and US Treasury Secretary described president Donald Trump’s tariff “misleading” and “unclear”. The problems they posed to the Federal Reserve have developed: the definitions can nourish inflation and lead to slowing down.

Janet Yellen does not support the president’s tariff. The former Federal President and Minister of Treasury described the “misleading” definitions and “the goals are unclear”.

“We are in a world of tremendous uncertainty,” she said about Bloomberg TV Monday.

In early April, President Donald Trump announced a comprehensive mutual tariff system that sent the stock market and led to chaos in the bond market. Later pressing a pause to conclude deals, and the marketing market recovery. It may have reached below, but there is no way to know that. After all, as soon as the 90 -day grace period ends, “we can return in the same place in early July,” the LPL Finanecales wrote in a research note issued on Monday.

However, Trump put a 10 % blanket tariff on other countries, and imposed taxes on China more. China has been averaged since then. Trade between the two countries was closed until the administration announced an exemption from things such as smartphones, computers and semi -conductors. It is not clear how long it will continue; The president said after no one was outside the tariff hooks, and Trade Minister Howard Lootnick warned that the duties are coming to technology.

However, things calmed down. Some stagnation calls were pulled, but not everything. “We will be lucky to avoid stagnation.” Others, like the founder of Bridgewateer Associats Ray Dalio and the chief economist in Moody, Mark Zandy, warned that the recession is likely to be.

An inflation expectations rise and decline in consumer feelings. This may lead to a decrease in consumer spending and business investment – a slowdown in economic activity. The central bank is in waiting and vision. He monitors what he believes can be inflation caused by customs tariffs instead of continuing to reduce interest rates. But inflation is only one part of its double mandate, which consists of stable and maximum labor. The decrease in commercial spending tends to move forward with high unemployment. Therefore, the central bank can be paid to do the movement and reduce interest rates.

“If the Federal Reserve sees a weakness in the economy, the unemployment is rising, we have fallen into the recession, which will create a good reason to reduce prices,” Yellen explained. “But if they will feel comfortable when doing this depends on what is happening on the side of inflation.”

Yellen, similar to her, seems to her boss, Jerome Powell, believes that the customs tariff may be a single -time shock to the prices. She said this does not explain things like workers who negotiate higher wages to compensate for more expensive prices or more definitions at a later time. Yellen believes that the customs tariff for China alone may constitute a great burden on families and companies, as it described the escalating trade war as “legally harmful to the American economy.” Both examples may lead to persistent inflation, a problem for the Federal Reserve that will keep it from the cut rates.

Mohamed El -Erian, head of Queen’s College at Cambridge University, recently wrote that the Federal Reserve Powell may be “one of the most bad things” ever.

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