Fed's Waller: Uncertainty over trade, other policies, shouldn't paralyze rate moves
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said his "baseline" view is that the Trump administration's new tariffs will have only a modest impact on prices that the central bank should try to look through in setting monetary policy. Uncertainty about the impact of trade or other administration policies, Waller said, shouldn't stall the Fed from acting if it is otherwise appropriate, just as Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 did not prevent the Fed from changing interest rates even though both incidents raised doubts about the economic outlook.