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Fed Chair Warsh Mulls Cutting Half-Century Meeting Schedule

8/1/2026

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Fed Chair Kevin M. Warsh said he is considering cutting the Federal Reserve’s regularly scheduled interest-rate meetings.
The eight-times-year, 12-member schedule set in 1981 under Paul Volcker could be revised before the mid-September meeting.
Cutting meetings would be Warsh’s most consequential operational shift, breaking half a century of precedent and limiting information to Wall Street and the public about inflation, jobs and rate policy.

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Fed Chair Kevin M. Warsh said he is considering cutting the Federal Reserve’s regularly scheduled interest-rate meetings.
The eight-times-year, 12-member schedule set in 1981 under Paul Volcker could be revised before the mid-September meeting.
Cutting meetings would be Warsh’s most consequential operational shift, breaking half a century of precedent and limiting information to Wall Street and the public about inflation, jobs and rate policy.