Balance of Power22 Aug 2025

Powell Opens Door to Rate Cut, Canada Drops Some Retaliatory Tariffs

Watch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell carefully opened the door to an interest-rate cut in September, pointing to rising risks for the labor market even as worries over inflation remain.

“The stability of the unemployment rate and other labor market measures allows us to proceed carefully as we consider changes to our policy stance,” Powell said in remarks prepared for the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Friday. “Nonetheless, with policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.”

Following Powell’s remarks, investors boosted bets that the Federal Open Market Committee would cut rates at its Sept. 16-17 meeting. Economists at Deutsche Bank, Barclays and BNP Paribas pulled forward their forecasts for the next rate cut to September.

On this edition of Balance of Power, Tyler Kendall and Michael Shepard, in for Joe and Kailey, speak with:

Michael McKee, Bloomberg International Economics and Policy Correspondent
Lael Brainard, Former Director of the National Economic Council During the Biden Administration, Former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Brian Platt, Bloomberg Canada Government reporter
Kathryn Edwards, Economic Policy Consultant & Bloomberg Opinion Contributor
Myles Miller, Bloomberg Senior Reporter
Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center and Democratic Strategist & Ashley Davis, Partner at S-3 Group and Republican Strategist

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