{"id":639592,"date":"2026-08-06T05:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/feds-cook-says-shed-support-rate-hike-if-disinflation-stalls\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:52:50","slug":"feds-cook-says-shed-support-rate-hike-if-disinflation-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/feds-cook-says-shed-support-rate-hike-if-disinflation-stalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed\u2019s Cook says she\u2019d support rate hike if disinflation stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/fed-money-dollars.jpg\" alt=\"Fed\u2019s Cook says she\u2019d support rate hike if disinflation stalls\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is \u201cprepared to act\u201d if inflation remains too high above the Fed\u2019s target rate. <\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is prepared to support higher interest rates if US inflation fails to come down, a change that can pressure crypto and other high-risk investments. <\/p>\n<p>Cook was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/speech\/cook20260805a.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">speaking<\/a> at a luncheon hosted by the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, saying that while some disinflationary forces are in play, she is \u201cprepared to act\u201d if disinflation stalls. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I have described, inflation is too high, and I consider the risks to the inflation side of the dual mandate higher than the risks to the employment side at this point,\u201d said Cook. \u201cAs such, I am prepared to act by raising rates, if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/markets\/feds-cook-warns-persistent-inflation-could-prompt-rate-hike\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is \u201cprepared to act\u201d if inflation remains too high above the Fed\u2019s target rate. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is prepared to support higher interest rates if US inflation fails to come down, a change that can pressure crypto and other high-risk investments. Cook was speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-639592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}