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[ROLLING HEADLINE] Fed Jackson Hole speakers and ad-hoc interviews

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Official schedule to be released around 01:00 BST on 28th August 2026

August 27th

  • 07:30 EDT / 12:30 BST - Fed's Schmid (2028 Voter, Hawk) Fox Business
  • TBC - Fed's Schmid (2028 Voter, Hawk) CNBC Interview
  • 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST - Fed's Hammack (2026 Voter, Hawk, Dissenter) CNBC interview
  • 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST - Fed's Hammack (2026 Voter, Hawk, Dissenter) Fox News

August 28th

  • 15:00 BST/10:00 EDT - Fed Chair Warsh to speak (last year, Powell's speech was published at 15:00 BST)
  • 17:30 BST/12:30 EDT - Fed's Goolsbee (2027 Voter, Neutral) CNBC interview

What it means

Jackson Hole has historically been the venue where chairs signal framework shifts or tee up near-term policy moves, and the pattern has been for the chair's address to dominate the entire event, with satellite interviews repricing only when they contradict or sharpen the chair's line. The sequencing here matters: hawkish known-dissenter commentary ahead of the chair tends to set a bar the chair's text is then measured against, and front-end pricing has typically moved most when the chair confirms rather than resists the hawks' framing. The distinction worth drawing is between the scheduled speech, which in past episodes has been published in full at the stated time and traded on the text itself, and the television interviews, which are headline-risk events prone to truncated quotes hitting the wire before full context. Hawk-tag speakers double-booked across networks suggests an effort to shape the narrative before the chair speaks, a pattern seen when the committee's wings are actively contesting the path. The chair's address is the main event; the interviews are the preamble and the echo.

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