Episode
AI Export Controls and the Warsh Era: Fed Regime Change Amidst AI Sovereignty Challenges
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- Mine Print Hash
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- Jun 18, 2026
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- 2981
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Summary
TL;DR : Kevin Warsh’s first FOMC is framed as the start of a multi-year Fed regime change: less forward guidance, more institutional reform, and more credit directed toward real growth and AI. 📄 Summary Kevin Warsh’s First FOMC: A New Fed Era Cameron Otsuka and Matt Dines open Mine Print Hash with Warsh’s first FOMC as Fed Chair, calling it a “new transitionary era” likely to play out over years (00:01:19). * Matt compares Warsh to a new coach entering an old locker room: the Fed “used to be winning,” but fell into complacency (00:02:32). * The message: the Fed has failed its objective for over five years, and “it’s time for institutional change” (00:05:15). Forward Guidance Is Out The core shift is Warsh rejecting the Bernanke/Yellen/Powell forward-guidance playbook, where markets trade every Fed clue on rates. * Matt says Warsh’s message was: “throw that whole playbook away” (00:06:41). * Forward guidance is framed as a recent early-2000s tool, not a permanent feature of central banking (00:07:50). * Matt contrasts it with “window guidance,” where credit is routed through banks toward industry, energy, infrastructure, housing, and real growth (00:10:05). Dots, Task Forces, and Culture Change Warsh did not ban the dot plot; he refused to submit one, letting the old behavior die “gradually, then suddenly” as others may follow (00:14:04). * He launched five task forces: inflation, communication, economic data, productivity/AI implementation, and jobs (00:17:31). * Matt sees these as the buy-in and policy ammunition needed to move a slow institution through 2026 (00:18:00). Market Reaction: Real Growth, Not Just Hawkishness The front end of the Treasury curve sold off, with two-year yields rising nearly 15 bps (00:20:07). * Matt argues nominal yields rising while breakev…