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Kevin Warsh 'regime change' faces steep hurdles at a sprawling US central bank
President Donald Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve. Warsh has strong ties to Trump and Wall Street. However, his plans for aggressive interest rate cuts and significant changes at the Fed face challenges.
WASHINGTON, - Kevin Warsh checks a long list of boxes for President Donald Trump as his pick to run the Federal Reserve, with longstanding political and social ties to the president, deep Wall Street connections and a well-tailored demeanor, but how deeply and quickly he will cut interest rates and how aggressively he will pursue his "regime change" at the Fed remain open questions.
Trump has called for rate cuts to what amount to crisis levels of perhaps 1%. That's an aim Warsh, an inflation hawk in his prior term as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, may find too aggressive, and which economic data and the views of his 18 policymaking colleagues may make impossible. Rate futures remained priced for just two quarter-point rate cuts in 2026 from the current 3.50% to 3.75% range, and did not move appreciably after Trump announced the nomination in a social media post.
Likewise, Warsh's years of Fed criticism, begun after he left the board in 2011 and intensified over the past year as Trump considered him to succeed current Chair Jerome Powell, now meet the challenge of how to turn think-tank speeches and newspaper op-eds into reform that can get through the Fed's Board of Governors, get sign-off from Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and clear the U.S. Congress if it involves amending the Federal Reserve Act.
Change, in other words, may be easier said than done.
Warsh "is a pragmatist who won't want to lose market trust by making cuts that aren't warranted. His long history of concern about inflation suggests that he won't allow the economy to overheat," said Heather Long, chief economist for Navy Federal Credit Union. "He's been an outspoken critic of the Fed's balance sheet and groupthink. More clarity is needed on how far he intends to go" in pursuing other changes at the Fed.
It also may take more than just "breaking some heads" at the Fed, as Warsh put it in a July interview on Fox News, speaking of the people who are about to become his colleagues.
THWARTING 'INSTITUTIONAL DRIFT'
The Fed particularly in the last 20 years has become a complex, hybrid beast that grew with an expansion of power during the financial crisis and through the pandemic. That may be just what Warsh and Treasury's Bessent, in recent writing, have in mind in their criticisms.
The Fed's mix of monetary policy powers, considered its sole province, along with the sort of regulatory authority that is usually situated in the executive branch, and controlling legislation set by Congress, has left even Supreme Court justices puzzled about exactly where the Fed fits in the federal system. It's a nerdy legal issue with deep ramifications. The question came up as the court considered whether Trump could fire Governor Lisa Cook, a question that becomes more tangled the more distant the Fed is seen as being from the U.S. administration.
Some parts of what Warsh and others have criticized as "institutional drift" could be resolved internally. Under Powell, and given the direction of the Trump administration, for example, the Fed already stopped its involvement in a global climate change consortium and scaled back its work on issues around diversity, equity and inclusion.
The chair could shift the tone of Fed communications, discourage the array of speeches from the 12 reserve bank presidents or even other governors to more closely control the messaging, or work more closely with Bessent and recast the Fed's relationship with the Treasury.
Warsh "appears to be predisposed to make more fundamental changes...particularly in the way the committee approaches forward guidance, relying too much on near-term forecasting and increased data-dependence," analysts with TD Securities wrote in an analysis of Warsh's nomination.
ECONOMIC MODELS UNDER THE SCOPE
Warsh's criticism of Fed modeling and forecasting in fact could provide an early test of his intentions. At his last press conference, Powell issued a challenge for the next chair: "If it's a question of using better models, bring them on. Where are they? We'll take them."
The Fed's large balance sheet has been a particular focus for Warsh. He opposed some of the "quantitative easing" conducted while he was at the Fed, supporting Chair Ben Bernanke in public votes but eventually resigning partly in protest.
He may find his hands tied there as well.
The balance sheet is now intimately interwoven with the Fed's control of interest rates, and provides liquidity for banks and dollars for the world. Unless that changes, it can only shrink so far.
Its size, the market "footprint" critics cite, "is about right," outgoing Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said Friday on CNBC. "When the economy grows the balance sheet needs to grow with it."
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