前总统特朗普的经济顾问斯蒂芬·摩尔周一表示，美联储主席凯文·沃什在本周央行利率会议前处于“艰难”境地。
Stephen Moore, a former economic adviser to President Trump, said Monday that Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is in a “tough” position ahead of the central bank’s meeting regarding interest rates this week.
摩尔在CNN节目《新闻中心》中说：“这对我的朋友凯文·沃什来说是个艰难的处境，因为我认为美联储的头号任务是将通胀率降至2%或更低。这可能意味着再次加息。”摩尔曾在特朗普2016年总统竞选期间及其首个任期内担任顾问。他是保守派组织“促进增长俱乐部”的联合创始人。
“It’s a tough position for my friend Kevin Warsh because I think job number one for the Fed [is to] get that inflation rate down to 2 percent or lower. That might mean another rate hike,” Moore said on “CNN News Central.”Moore advised Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and his first term in office. He is the co-founder of the conservative Club for Growth.
联邦公开市场委员会（FOMC）将于周二和周三召开会议，距离官员们一致投票加息25个基点以应对顽固通胀已过去六周。
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will gather on Tuesday and Wednesday, six weeks after officials unanimously voted to raise interest rates by a quarter point to combat persistent inflation.
沃什在美联储上次会议后表示：“五年多来，通胀一直高于目标。因此我们的主要关注点在于职责中的价格稳定方面。坦率的事实是，通胀过高，且持续时间过长。”自那时起，沃什及其FOMC同事收到的数据显示，通胀并未朝着2%目标回落。根据消费者价格指数，年通胀率从8月到9月从3.4%上升至3.7%。
“For more than five years, inflation has been running above target,” Warsh said after the Fed’s last meeting. “So our predominant focus is on the price-stability side of our mandate. “The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long.”Since then, Warsh and his FOMC colleagues have received data that show inflation is not on the way down to their 2 percent target. Annual inflation rose from August to September, to 3.4 percent to 3.7 percent, according to the consumer price index.
克利夫兰联邦储备银行预测，作为央行首选通胀指标的个人消费支出价格指数将显示，9月同比上涨3.6%。
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland projects that the personal consumption expenditures price index, the central bank’s preferred inflation metric, will report prices as being up 3.6 percent year-over-year in September.
经济分析局将在周四发布PCE数据，这将在FOMC决定利率之后。
The Bureau of Economic Analysis will release PCE data on Thursday, after the FOMC decides on rates.
火热的通胀数据让沃什进退维谷，因为特朗普提名这位首年上任的美联储主席时，期望他会降息。
The hot inflation data puts Warsh in a bind, as Trump nominated the first-year Fed chair with the expectation he would cut rates.
在FOMC上月加息后，总统赞扬了沃什，但批评了利率决策小组的其他11名成员，其中三人是他任命的。
After the FOMC raised rates last month, the president praised Warsh but criticized the other 11 members of the rate-setting panel, three of whom he appointed.
“他是个好人，凯文·沃什，但无论他干得多好，面对的都是一个敌对的理事会，”总统在美联储加息数小时后对记者表示。
“He’s a good man, Kevin Warsh, but no matter how good a job [he does], he’s got a hostile board,” the president told reporters, hours after the Fed raised rates.
尽管通胀仍维持在2%以上，但根据CME美联储观察工具，交易员们预计美联储将利率维持在3.75%至4%区间的概率近90%。
Despite inflation remaining above 2 percent, traders are pricing in a nearly 90 percent chance of the Fed holding rates at a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent, according to the CME FedWatch tool.
包括美联储副主席菲利普·杰斐逊和纽约联储主席约翰·威廉姆斯在内的多位联邦公开市场委员会官员在会期间表示，他们需要评估经济数据，然后再决定货币政策的下一步走向。
Multiple FOMC officials, including Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson and Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams, have said during the intermeeting period they need to evaluate economic data before deciding on the next course for monetary policy.
“我和我的同事们需要得出自己的判断，这可能需要更多时间，”杰斐逊本月初在弗吉尼亚大学表示。
“My colleagues and I will need to come to our own judgment, which may take more time,” Jefferson said earlier this month at the University of Virginia.