{"id":25898,"date":"2026-04-14T20:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/feds-goolsbee-warns-rate-cuts-may-be-delayed-until-2027-on-iran-war-oil-shock\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:54:56","slug":"feds-goolsbee-warns-rate-cuts-may-be-delayed-until-2027-on-iran-war-oil-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/feds-goolsbee-warns-rate-cuts-may-be-delayed-until-2027-on-iran-war-oil-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed\u2019s Goolsbee warns rate cuts may be delayed until 2027 on Iran war oil shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p>Austan Goolsbee has warned the Federal Reserve may need to keep interest rates on hold until 2027 if the Iran war keeps oil prices high and inflation stuck above target.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_425a8e0adfca157eb1072aa3a39a912b\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chicago Fed chief Austan Goolsbee says rate cuts might not arrive until 2027 if oil stays elevated.<\/li>\n<li>War\u2011driven energy prices threaten the Fed\u2019s path back to 2% inflation and could even force fresh hikes.<\/li>\n<li>Markets that once priced multiple 2026 cuts now face a longer \u201chigher for longer\u201d regime.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Austan Goolsbee has warned the Federal Reserve may need to keep interest rates on hold until 2027 if the Iran war keeps oil prices high and inflation stuck above target.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Semafor World Economy conference on Tuesday, the Chicago Federal Reserve president said \u201cit\u2019s our job to get inflation back to 2%,\u201d and stressed that persistently expensive energy could \u201cstart pushing\u201d potential rate cuts \u201cout of \u201926.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the conflict, Goolsbee had expected tariff\u2011driven inflation to ease this year and saw room for \u201ceven multiple rate cuts in 2026,\u201d but he told AP that the longer inflation \u201cstays up, realistically, I think that starts pushing it out of \u201926.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fed-weighs-oil-shock-against-2-inflation-goal\">Fed weighs oil shock against 2% inflation goal<\/h1>\n<p>The Fed is currently holding its benchmark federal funds rate in a 3.50%\u20133.75% range after leaving policy unchanged at its March meeting, even as war\u2011related supply disruptions sent oil toward triple\u2011digit levels.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes from that March meeting showed officials worried that the Iran war\u2019s impact on energy could keep inflation above the 2% target for longer and \u201ccould call for rate hikes\u201d if price pressures fail to ease.<\/p>\n<p>In recent projections, Fed policymakers lifted their 2026 inflation forecast to around 2.7%, acknowledging that gasoline and other energy costs threaten to slow the disinflation process that markets had hoped would justify earlier cuts.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"markets-recalibrate-higher-for-longer\">Markets recalibrate \u2018higher for longer\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>Traders who once priced four 2026 rate cuts have already slashed expectations to a single move after oil briefly spiked to about $115 per barrel during the Iran conflict, pushing headline inflation back toward 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Goolsbee underlined that if inflation were to \u201cstay elevated\u201d and the Fed \u201cnever got to see the decrease in inflation,\u201d any optimism around near\u2011term easing would fade, and officials would need to keep borrowing costs restrictive.finance.<\/p>\n<p>That stance echoes Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who recently cautioned that with the Iran war clouding the outlook, the central bank has \u201climited flexibility\u201d to cut until there is clearer evidence inflation is moving sustainably to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austan Goolsbee has warned the Federal Reserve may need to keep interest rates on hold until 2027 if the Iran war keeps oil prices high and inflation stuck above 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