swonk
Americanverb
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In an interview, Diane Swonk, chief U.S. economist at HSBC, said the Fed was “between a rock and hard place.”
From MarketWatch
“The effective tariff rate will likely peak a little above 13% in the first quarter and that’s almost half the pace of April 2nd—but it’s still more than four times the pace of a year ago,” said KPMG’s chief economist Diane Swonk.
As Swonk noted in a social media post, cutbacks at the BLS had already reduced the staff assigned to sampling prices by 25%.
From Los Angeles Times
“Those cases can show up as zeros in the percent change of the release,” Swonk wrote — obviously lowering the bottom-line figure.
From Los Angeles Times
The delay in sampling, Swonk adds, means that some seasonal price phenomena were missed.
From Los Angeles Times
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