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[1/2]美国前联邦储备委员会主席保罗·A·沃尔克于2015年6月8日在美国纽约举行的新闻发布会上发言。路透社/ Mike Segar/文件照片
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2015年6月8日，美国前联邦储备委员会主席保罗·A·沃尔克在美国纽约的新闻发布会上发言。路透社/ Mike Segar/文件照片 购买许可权，在新标签页中打开
3月21日（路透社）- 美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔周六赞扬了前美联储主席保罗·沃尔克在20世纪80年代抗击通胀时”抵制政治压力的意愿”。这番言论在特朗普政府试图迫使鲍威尔降低利率之际，鲍威尔本人正在捍卫美联储独立性，因此这些言论具有特殊的共鸣。
沃尔克无视批评者，在20世纪80年代初大幅加息，引发经济衰退，但也使美国经济恢复了物价稳定。
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“他的行动提醒我们，独立性和正直是不可分割的——我们需要独立性来做正确的事，也需要正直来明智地运用这种独立性，”鲍威尔在一段录制的视频中表示，他是在接受保罗·A·沃尔克公共正直奖（Paul A. Volcker Public Integrity Award）。
过去一年中，鲍威尔就美联储独立性进行了自己的政治斗争。特朗普经常指责他没有放松政策，并威胁要将他解职。
特朗普还试图以涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈为由解雇美联储理事丽莎·库克（Lisa Cook），而她正在最高法院审理的案件中进行反击。
今年1月，美国司法部对鲍威尔处理美联储华盛顿总部翻新工程的方式展开刑事调查。鲍威尔表示，这一发展是试图胁迫他按照总统的意愿制定政策。
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周三，鲍威尔承诺在调查解决前不会离开央行，这给特朗普希望尽快任命一位对其降低利率要求持同情态度的央行行长取代他的计划泼了冷水。美联储主席通常在任期结束时辞职，鲍威尔的任期于5月15日结束。
一位资深共和党议员也誓言，只要司法部调查仍在进行，就会搁置特朗普提名的接替鲍威尔的人选——前美联储理事凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）。
“最终，我们每个人都会希望回顾自己人生的历程，并知道我们做了正确的事，”鲍威尔说。”正如保罗·沃尔克在整个职业生涯中所展示的那样，最终，我们的正直是我们拥有的一切。”
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Fed Chair Powell lauds Volcker’s ‘willingness to resist’ | Reuters
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March 21, 2026 5:32 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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March 21 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Saturday lauded former Fed Chair Paul Volcker’s “willingness to resist” political pressure as he fought inflation in the 1980s, remarks that have particular resonance as Powell presses his own defense of the Fed’s independence amid the Trump administration’s efforts to get him to lower rates.
Volcker ignored his critics and raised interest rates sharply in the early 1980s, triggering a recession but also returning the U.S. economy to price stability.
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“His actions remind us that independence and integrity are inseparable—we need independence to do what is right, and we need integrity to use that independence wisely,” Powell said in a taped video accepting the Paul A. Volcker Public Integrity Award.
Over the past year Powell has fought his own political battles over Fed independence, with Trump frequently berating him for not easing policy and threatening to try to oust him.
Trump has also tried to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud, a move she is fighting in a case now before the Supreme Court.
In January, the Department of Justice opened a criminal probe into Powell’s handling of renovations to the Fed’s Washington headquarters, a development Powell says is an attempt to intimidate him into setting policy as the president wants.
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On Wednesday Powell pledged not to leave the central bank until the probe is resolved, putting a wrench into Trump’s hopes of soon replacing him with a central bank chief sympathetic to his demands for lower interest rates. Fed chairs typically resign when their leadership terms are up, as Powell’s is on May 15.
A top Republican has also vowed a hold on Trump’s nominee to replace Powell, former Fed governor Kevin Warsh, as long as the DOJ probe remains open.
“Ultimately, each of us will want to look back at the arc of our lives and know that we did what was the right thing,” Powell said. “As Paul Volcker showed throughout his career, in the end, our integrity is all we have.”
Reporting by Ann Saphir; editing by Diane Craft
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