美联储主席鲍威尔暗示可能降息以应对经济担忧

"...fraught decision..."

"...cave to the White House’s demands..."

"...constant hectoring..."

"...highly-anticipated speech..."

"...persistent inflation..."

"...could make a cut look premature..."

"...urged Powell to slash rates..."

"...no inflation..."

"...worried that the economy is weakening..."

"...move carefully..."

"...cut rates at a much slower pace than Trump wants..."

"...marked slowing..."

"...threatens to raise unemployment..."

"...tariffs have started to lift the price of goods..."

"...could continue to push inflation higher..."

"...closely monitor..."

"...cautious about additional rate cuts..."

"...no Fed official supports..."

"...assert its longstanding independence..."

"...politically independent central bank..."

"...critical to preventing inflation..."

"...harder for elected officials to do..."

"...committed to the Fed’s independence..."

"...laser focused..."

"...tune out all the other noise..."

"...fight stubborn inflation..."

"...shared by several colleagues..."

"...inflation is too high..."

"...trending in the wrong direction..."

"...moving away from our goals on the inflation side..."

"...did not discuss the Fed’s independence..."

"...received a standing ovation..."

"...deliberate choice..."

"...intended, ironically, to demonstrate the Fed’s independence..."

"...not talking about independence..."

"...signal we’re getting on with the business..."

"...civilized internal discussion..."

"...pleases the president..."

"...make the right call..."

"...intensified his own pressure campaign..."

"...threatened to fire Powell..."

"...appointed Powell in late 2017..."

"...term as chair ends in about nine months..."

"...no stranger to Trump’s attacks..."

"...long history of applying pressure..."

"...long history of resisting that pressure..."

"...odd, I think, if on his way out the door, he caved for the first time..."

"...overestimating the risk..."

"...inflation worsens..."

"...force the Fed to potentially reverse course..."

"...increase rates again next year..."

"...further damage to the Fed’s credibility..."

"...maintaining low and stable price inflation..."