St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard, a leading hawk at the U.S. central bank who pushed for aggressive interest rate hikes to curb high inflation, will leave the Fed regional bank next month to join Purdue University's business school.
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James Bullard, the central bank’s longest-serving current policymaker and a leading hawkish voice supporting interest-rate hikes, stepped down on Thursday.
(Reuters) -St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard, a leading hawk at the U.S. central bank who pushed for aggressive interest rate hikes to curb high inflation, will leave the Fed regional bank next month to join Purdue University's business school. Bullard, who has led the St. Louis Fed since 2008 and is the Fed's longest-serving current policymaker, will stay on in an advisory role at the regional bank until Aug. 14 before taking up a post as the inaugural dean of the Mitchell E. Da