{"id":36081,"date":"2023-05-05T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/st-louis-feds-bullard\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T18:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:17:46","slug":"st-louis-feds-bullard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/st-louis-feds-bullard\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Fed&#8217;s Bullard says rate increase this week was good &#8216;next step&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     The quarter point rate increase approved by the Federal Reserve this week was &#8220;a good next step&#8221; in the fight against inflation, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of inflation in the U.S. economy,&#8221; Bullard said in the first policymaker comments since the Fed&#8217;s latest meeting. &#8220;It was a good next step for the committee,&#8221; Bullard said, without indicating if he still feels even higher rates are appropriate.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Howard Schneider; Editing by Chris Reese)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/st-louis-feds-bullard\/file-photo-st-louis-federal-reserve-bank-president-james-bullard-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440OT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440OT-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The quarter point rate increase approved by the Federal Reserve this week was &#8220;a good next step&#8221; in the fight against inflation, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Friday. &#8220;We have a lot of inflation in the U.S. economy,&#8221; Bullard said in the first policymaker comments since the Fed&#8217;s latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440OT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36083,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081\/revisions\/36083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}