{"id":39291,"date":"2025-12-17T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39291"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:23:06","slug":"watch-fed-governor-christopher-waller-speak-on-interest-rates-and-the-race-to-succeed-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39291","title":{"rendered":"Watch Fed Governor Christopher Waller speak on interest rates and the race to succeed Powell"},"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><em><strong>[The stream is slated to start at 8:15 a.m. ET. CNBC Television will start the stream when the event begins. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller is slated to speak at at the Yale CEO Summit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Waller is one of the five finalists\u00a0considered to replace Fed Chairman Jerome Powell when his term expires in May. He&#8217;s set to be interviewed by President Donald Trump this week, CNBC&#8217;s Steve Liesman reported. Trump has signaled that Kevin Warsh and Kevin Hassett are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/16\/kevin-warsh-moves-ahead-in-fed-chief-race-on-kalshi-after-hassett-pushback.html\">frontrunners<\/a> to succeed Powell, however. <\/p>\n<p>Waller, who was appointed to the Fed&#8217;s board by Trump and confirmed by the Senate in late 2020, has emerged this year as one of the central bank&#8217;s strongest voices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/17\/fed-governor-waller-backs-december-rate-cut-as-support-for-weakening-labor-market.html\">pushing for rate cuts<\/a>. The Fed lowered rates by a quarter point at each of its past three meetings. Waller previously dissented in July, when policymakers opted to keep rates unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/CNBC?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Subscribe to CNBC on YouTube.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/17\/watch-fed-governor-christopher-waller-speak-on-interest-rates-and-the-race-to-succeed-powell.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[The stream is slated to start at 8:15 a.m. ET. CNBC Television will start the stream when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39291","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\/39291","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=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}