美联储主席候选人布拉德：不支持本周降息50基点

Group 1 - The next Federal Reserve chair candidate, former St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, opposes a 50 basis point rate cut this week, stating that the Fed's decision is correct [1] - The Federal Reserve lowered borrowing costs by 25 basis points this week, a move described by Chairman Jerome Powell as a "risk management" measure aimed at boosting a weakening labor market [1] - Bullard estimates that the neutral interest rate, which neither stimulates nor suppresses the economy, is around 3.25% [1] Group 2 - A former Fed official and current dean of Purdue University's business school suggested that the Fed's large-scale purchase of mortgage-backed securities in spring 2020 may have been a mistake, as the U.S. housing market recovered after the initial COVID-19 shock [2] - The process of unwinding these securities from the Fed's balance sheet is expected to take a long time [2]