“Rather than lead markets in battling inflation, the Fed has been forced to follow them,” El-Erian wrote in a separate opinion piece for CNN published on Wednesday ahead of the central bank’s rate announcement. “Yet, because it has been so late in responding, the Fed will be aggressively hiking into a weakening domestic and global economy.”
Following the Fed’s moves, many have lost faith in the central bank, and some went to say that hey see the Fed”as part of the problem and not part of the solution,” added El-Erian, who is the chief advisor to Allianz and the president of Queens’ College at Cambridge University in the UK. He was previously the CEO of US bond-fund giant Pimco.
“There is an increasing number of economists warning that the Fed will tip the US into recession; and a growing number of foreign policymakers complaining that the world’s most powerful and systemically important central bank is pulling the rug out from under an already fragile global economy,” he wrote on CNN.
In March, Jerome Powell, the current Fed chair, admitted in a congressional hearing that the central bank should have acted earlier.
