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Kevin Hassett

Director, National Economic Council

Search every verified Kevin Hassett interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, has recently highlighted strong economic data, including the August jobs report which showed 162,000 jobs added, a figure he said beat the forecasts of all 77 economists surveyed by Bloomberg and was four standard deviations above the average prediction. He attributed the job growth to President Trump’s policies, citing onshoring of production due to tariffs and the construction of factories, and noted that the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model suggests third-quarter growth of about 5%. Hassett also pointed to a recent inflation report as the best in six years, with core CPI at a 2.6% year-over-year rate, and argued that real wages for workers rose 0.8% in a single month. Hassett has also addressed concerns about high grocery and gas prices, acknowledging they remain a problem for consumers while arguing that overall inflation is decelerating. He expressed confidence in Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, stating that the Fed’s independence will be respected and that Warsh has assembled a team to rethink outdated economic models, particularly the Phillips curve, which Hassett argued assumes growth comes from demand-side factors. He contrasted current conditions with the Biden administration, claiming that job revisions under the previous administration were often large and negative, whereas recent BLS data has been more accurate.

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“I think that the president I spoke to the president last night and his view is that when we get really, really good news like we have on growth and really, really good news like we have on inflation, he's not giving the Fed policy advice. He's saying it's natural that people would say, 'Oh, well, the US is in a better fiscal situation cuz it's growing so much. It'll have more tariff and tax revenue.' And over time, t”

“The odds of that right now about 60%. We respect the independence of the Fed, but I think that it's been underreported something that Chairman Powell has been saying and emphasizing and just did so again at Jackson Hole, that growth doesn't require the Fed to raise rates. It's inflation that they need to really keep their eye on.”

“I think that one of the problems is that institutional economics sometimes doesn't keep up with what's going on in the world. And when you have big fundamental changes like President Trump's policy, which is bringing investment into the country at an unheard of rate, AI, which is making productivity go up at an unheard of rate, that that's inconsistent with historical models. And so people who rely on historical mode”

“The odds of that right now about 60%. We respect the independence of the Fed, but I think that it's been underreported something that Chairman Powell's just been saying and emphasizing and just did so again at Jackson Hole, that growth doesn't require the Fed to raise rates. It's inflation that they need to really keep their eye on.”

“And so, all of the price data have been decelerating. Now, there was a big inflation in the previous administration, but there's been rapid deceleration of inflation under President Trump.”

“Well, I disagree with your number. We'll have to follow up on email, but I you know, I just looked at the latest number. It was that job creation under President Trump since January 20th is about 880,000 jobs.”

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