{"id":39258,"date":"2025-12-16T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39258"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:38:03","slug":"hassett-says-fed-independence-is-really-important-and-chair-candidates-shouldnt-be-disqualified-for-being-trumps-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39258","title":{"rendered":"Hassett says Fed independence is \u2018really important\u2019 and chair candidates shouldn\u2019t be disqualified for being Trump\u2019s friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, one of the finalists for the Federal Reserve chair job, showed support Tuesday for central bank independence.<\/p>\n<p>With President Donald Trump apparently in the final days of picking a successor to Jerome Powell at the Fed, Hassett declined in a CNBC interview to directly address his own candidacy but said forging consensus is an important part of the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Reserve\u2019s independence is really, really important, and the voices of the other people at the FOMC, they\u2019re important, too,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/16\/fed-chief-candidate-hassett-says-central-banks-independence-is-really-important-would-move-rates-by-consensus.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, one of the finalists for the Federal Reserve chair job, showed support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}