Well, joining us now is BNY Investments chief economist and former Federal Reserve Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs, Vincent Reinhardt. It's great to have you back on the show. Welcome.I want to start right there because we've had a lot of Fed speak to start the week and certainly Powell with his semiannual testimony on the Hill, part one of two days here today. The market seems to be taking his messaging maybe slightly more doubbish. But I'm not sure it's the right way to take his messaging, bu ...

So, one of the very valid criticisms of the Federal Reserve, where I worked for nearly a decade, is that they're looking at very lagged data that really is backward-looking as opposed to trying to pay closer attention to some of the especially rich realtime economic data that we have in hand right now. Unfortunately, it feels like the Fed is pretty much what we call behind the curve. So, they should be lowering interest rates and yet because they're driving using the rearview mirror, they're late to the gam ...

We see the same thing you do in the in the housing market. It's it's tough. There's not uh people are locked in.They can't afford to get out of their house because the cost of getting to a higher mortgage higher higher price mortgage would be would be a lot. So, um the best thing we can do though is to get inflation sustainably down to 2% and have it stay there over a long period of time. A long period of time.And that that is really what we can offer to them. Um, and I think, you know, to so if you go back ...

>> THERE YOU HAVE IT, THE GAVEL DROPS ON THE FIRST DAY OF TESTIMONY, DAY ONE OF TWO ON CAPITOL HILL THIS WEEK FOR FED CHAIR JAY POWELL. CONGRESSMAN FRANK LUCAS WRAPPING THINGS UP FOR US THERE. SEVERAL HOURS OF TESTIMONY.WE BROUGHT IT TO YOU LIVE HERE. I’M JOE MATHIEU IN WASHINGTON ALONGSIDE KAILEY LEINZ AS WE GET THINGS STARTED HERE ON THE TUESDAY EDITION OF "BALANCE OF POWER." THE FED CHAIR MADE IT CLEAR HE’S NOT READY TO LOWER RATES. CARO KAILEY: HE’S NOT MAKING ANY NEWS ON THE TRAJECTORY, REITERATING HE’ ...

30-year mortgage rates are wavering in a narrow range that's just a bit above their lowest reading since early May. Rate movement was mixed for other loan types. https://t.co/8eIrXXHdHc ...

Well, KB Home cutting its revenue outlook for the year after reporting weak second quarter results. This is the housing market. It remains sluggish with existing home sales seeing their worst May since 2009.Joining me now, we've got Meredith Whitney, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO. Meredith, good to have you back on Yahoo Finance with us. We we just heard remarks from Fed Chair Jerome Pal that he plans to keep rates on hold.So, what is the risk that that poses to the housing market. Well, the housing m ...

We've been speaking with top economists to better understand what this economic climate means for companies' bottom lines. Today, I'm speaking with CEO and Chief Strategist for QI Research Danielle DiMartino Booth. Hi, Danielle, thanks so much for taking the time to speak with me again this year.Thank you for having me. Great to be with you again. How can companies protect their bottom lines in this time of political and economic uncertainty.So, you know, the idea of battening down the hatches before the hu ...

really, on that. We're not seeing it yet, but we. >> Gentleman's time has expired.>> Thank you. Chairman. >> Yield back.Thank you, Mr. . Chairman. The gentleman from new Jersey recognized for five minutes.>> Thank you, Mr. . Chairman. >> Chairman Powell, as a member of the Intelligence Committee, I'm deeply concerned about the threat of Iranian cyber attacks on our financial system as retaliation for our strikes on their nuclear facilities and its cyber security report.Last year, the fed acknowledged that c ...

Gentleman yields back. Gentleman from California, Mr. . Licardo, is recognized for five minutes.Thank you, Mr. . Chair. Mr.. Chairman, thank you for your testimony today. I I appreciate that your dual mandate is full employment uh and price stability and I appreciate your efforts on behalf of our country to achieve those. My understanding is that critical data is collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to help u formulate the indicators that you rely on that we rely on to understand unemployment rates, ...

The gentleman from Wisconsin, Mr. . Style, who's also the chair of our subcommittee on digital assets, financial technology, and artificial intelligence. You're recognized for five minutes.Thank you, Chairman Hill. Thank you, Chairman Powell, for being with us today. I want to dive into two actions the Fed's recently taken uh to get a little additional color on.Yesterday, uh the Fed announced uh that reputational risk would no longer be a component in bank exams. Uh I viewed that positively. I viewed u the ...