{"id":45764,"date":"2026-01-30T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-fed-holds-interest-rates-and-defends-central-bank-independence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:30:04","slug":"us-fed-holds-interest-rates-and-defends-central-bank-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-fed-holds-interest-rates-and-defends-central-bank-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fed holds interest rates and defends central bank independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two Fed officials voted in favour of an interest rate cut &#8211; Stephen Miran, who is on leave from his post at the White House where he leads Trump&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers, and Christopher Waller, a Trump appointee whose name has been floated as contender to succeed Powell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9wxedz9v22o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Fed officials voted in favour of an interest rate cut &#8211; Stephen Miran, who is on leave from his post at the White House where he leads Trump&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers, and Christopher Waller, a Trump appointee whose name has been floated as contender to succeed Powell. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1026,811,368,4264,5546,11365,1380,1381],"class_list":["post-45764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-bank","tag-central","tag-defends","tag-fed","tag-holds","tag-independence","tag-interest","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45766,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764\/revisions\/45766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}