The new Fed chair won’t tell you what he thinks

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

As the Fed meets this week to consider an interest rate hike, Kevin Warsh is saying as little as possible about that, inflation and his own thinking.

July 26, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. EDTToday at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on July 15. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)

Ask Kevin Warsh how the Federal Reserve should think about inflation, talk to markets or weigh the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy, and the new chair has a stock answer: There’s a task force for that.

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