Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin said his support for last week's rate hike came from a growing conviction that price pressures from gas prices, tariffs, and AI-related supply constraints could be longer-lasting. He described the summer as clarifying that inflation was not coming down quickly enough to stand pat.

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