{"id":8065,"date":"2026-05-20T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:03:00","slug":"fed-officials-all-but-retired-the-question-that-had-dominated-their-debates-for-the-past-two-years-whether-to-cut-interest-rates-and-began-at-their-meeting-last-month-to-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=8065","title":{"rendered":"Fed officials all but retired the question that had dominated their debates for the past two years\u2014whether to cut interest rates\u2014and began at their meeting last month to more seriously weigh whether to raise them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-56808068\" \/><br \/>The Middle East war and an AI boom have reshaped the interest-rate outlook ahead of a leadership transition at the central bank.<br \/>\n2026-05-20 18:03:00<br \/>\nNick Timiraos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East war and an AI boom have reshaped the interest-rate outlook ahead of a leadership transition at the central bank. 2026-05-20 18:03:00 Nick Timiraos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}