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美国华盛顿特区白宫东厅，即将就任的美联储主席凯文·沃什在就职仪式上留影，2026年5月22日。路透社/乔纳森·恩斯特 获取授权许可，打开新标签页
- 内容摘要
- 沃什承诺对美联储战略进行评估，并可能进行运营调整
- 任命保守派分析师丹尼尔·海尔和保罗·温弗里为过渡顾问
- 沃什此前曾批评美联储政策
华盛顿6月2日（路透社）——在开启四年任期之际，美联储主席凯文·沃什在致该行两万余名员工的公开信中承诺，将“遵循美联储的最佳传统”，同时承诺将全面审视可能做出的调整。
这份备忘录首次展现了沃什的改革努力方向：他此前曾表示，美联储已偏离其使命，因此需要推行全面改革议程；同时他也试图修复与同事和员工的关系，尽管他曾批评过他们的工作。
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“我们的最高优先级是制定恰当的政策，以服务于我们的职责和国家利益。我们将营造一个支持员工倾尽所能开展工作的环境，”沃什在周二发布、经路透社审阅的这份备忘录中说道。
“当我们找到更好的替代方案时，我们不会拘泥于过往惯例，”沃什表示。“未来几个季度，我期待我们能就美联储的战略、政策和运营展开公开、清醒的讨论。”
据一位熟悉这位新主席首批人事任命消息人士透露，沃什还任命了两名保守派分析师在过渡期为其提供建议，以接替即将卸任的前美联储主席、现任理事杰罗姆·鲍威尔。《华尔街日报》最先报道了这一任命，相关职位被描述为临时合同岗，将协助沃什规划其上任后的首批工作。
丹尼尔·海尔是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的政策研究员，沃什就任美联储主席前也曾在该机构工作。保罗·温弗里曾任职于传统基金会，并参与了该智库颇具争议的保守派改革蓝图《2025计划》中有关美联储改革的章节撰写。
这位消息人士称，两人近年来都曾在不同的研究和写作项目中协助过沃什。作为胡佛研究所研究员及三十人集团智库成员，沃什一直保持着稳定的演讲和报纸专栏产出。
沃什此前已公开阐述过其对美联储改革的想法，包括希望缩减美联储6.7万亿美元的资产负债表、减少对未来利率决策的具体表态，以及探讨是否有其他能更好反映经济物价压力的通胀衡量指标。
在被考虑出任主席的数月间，沃什曾多次严厉批评鲍威尔领导下的美联储政策，以及包括12家地区储备银行在内的美联储体系，认为其涉足了货币政策之外的领域。
如今，这位曾批评过美联储的人士执掌了这一机构，沃什在备忘录中采取了更为提振士气的基调。
“美联储的新篇章开启之际，正值我们国家面临重大影响的时期。新技术和新商业模式正以前所未有的速度涌现，”沃什写道。“我对我们携手所能取得的成就充满信心。”
作为主席主持的首次会议——也大概率是他首次就经济和货币政策发表实质性评论——将于6月16日至17日举行。美联储预计将维持利率不变，但新的经济预测将设定市场对沃什任内政策走向的预期，同时也将反映出其同僚是否担忧仍高于美联储目标的通胀可能进一步走高。
他的任期开局非同寻常。
美联储正在等待最高法院就唐纳德·特朗普总统解雇理事丽莎·库克的尝试做出裁决，这一裁决被视为对美联储制定货币政策独立性的直接威胁，而独立性是美联储最核心的传统之一。
此外，沃什将领导一个包含前主席鲍威尔的委员会，鲍威尔因政府试图干预美联储的举动而决定继续留任美联储理事会理事。
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Exclusive: Warsh pledges to follow best of Fed’s traditions, while also looking for change
2026-06-02T22:21:41.364Z / https://www.reuters.com/business/warsh-pledges-follow-best-feds-traditions-while-also-looking-change-2026-06-02/
Incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh stands in the East Room during his swearing-in ceremony, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
- Summary
- Warsh promises review of Fed strategies and possible operational changes
- Names conservative analysts Daniel Heil and Paul Winfree as transition advisers
- Warsh has been critical of Fed policies
WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh pledged to follow “the best of the Fed’s traditions” in an opening note to the central bank’s more than 20,000 employees as he starts his four-year term, while also promising a broad look at what might be done differently.
The memo is an early window on Warsh’s efforts to pursue what he has described as an extensive reform agenda for a central bank he regards as having strayed from its mission, while also mending fences with colleagues and staff whose work he has criticized.
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“Our highest priority will be to get policy right in service to our remit and the national interest. We will ensure an environment that supports our people in doing their life’s best work,” Warsh said in the memo, sent on Tuesday and reviewed by Reuters.
“We won’t rely on past practices when we find better alternatives,” Warsh said. “In the coming quarters, I expect that together we will have open, clear-eyed discussions of Fed strategies, policies, and operations.”
Separately, Warsh has named two conservative analysts to advise him during a transition period as he takes over from former Fed Chair and now Governor Jerome Powell, according to a source familiar with the new chair’s first staffing decisions. The appointments, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, were described as temporary contractor positions to help Warsh plan his first projects as chair.
Daniel Heil is a policy fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where Warsh also worked prior to becoming Fed chair. Paul Winfree was formerly with the Heritage Foundation and assembled the chapter on Federal Reserve reform included in the think tank’s controversial Project 2025 blueprint for conservative reform.
Both have helped Warsh on different research and writing projects in recent years, the source said. As a fellow at the Hoover and in work with the Group of Thirty think tank, Warsh has kept up a steady output of speeches and newspaper columns.
Warsh has laid out his own ideas for change at the Fed, including a desire to pare the Fed’s $6.7 trillion balance sheet, to talk less specifically about coming interest rate decisions, and to discuss if there are alternate measures of inflation that better capture price pressures in the economy.
In the months he was under consideration as chair, Warsh was often deeply critical of the Powell Fed’s approach to policy, and of a Fed system, including the 12 regional reserve banks, he felt had strayed into issues beyond monetary policy.
Now leading the organization he criticized, Warsh struck a more boosterish tone in the memo.
“This new chapter at the Fed finds us in a time of great consequence for our nation. New technologies and new ways of doing business are arriving with unmatched speed,” Warsh wrote. “I could not be more optimistic about all that we can achieve together.”
The first meeting with Warsh as chair – and likely his first substantive comments about the economy and monetary policy – will be on June 16-17. The Fed is expected to hold interest rates steady, but new economic projections will set expectations about where policy is heading under Warsh and whether his colleagues are concerned that inflation, which remains above the Fed’s target, may get worse.
His tenure starts on an unusual footing.
The Fed is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Governor Lisa Cook, seen as a direct threat to the Fed’s independence in setting monetary policy, perhaps its most central tradition.
In addition, Warsh will preside over a body that includes its former leader, Powell, who because of the administration’s efforts to influence the Fed decided to remain in his seat on the Fed’s Board of Governors.
Reporting by Howard Schneider; Editing by Nia Williams
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