Harriet Torry

United States

Western U.S. Economics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Journalist @WSJ, Londoner in Houston covering the economy of the western U.S. Former Berliner. [email protected] / [email protected]

Articles

米中の関税引き下げ、米経済はどうなる

1 day ago | jp.wsj.com | Harriet Torry |Justin Lahart

エコノミストはリセッション確率を引き下げ　米経済が中国と関係を断ちつつあるとあなたが思っているなら、考え直すべきだ。「双方ともデカップリング（切り離し）は望んでいない」とスコット・ベッセント米財務長官は12日、対中関税を大幅に引き下げる暫定合意を発表する際に語った。ベッセント氏によれば、米国は中国との「長期にわたる持続的な通商協定」を目指している。　今回のリセットにより、米経済はモノの主要消費国として慣れ親しんだ軌道に戻り、リセッションのリスクが低下するとエコノミストたちはみている。この新たな合意で、関税のショック療法を使って製造業大国としての米国の地位を回復しようとする試みも一時中断する。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版今すぐ購読する Special Advertising Section アクセスランキング
What the U.S.-China Tariff Rollback Means for the American Economy

2 days ago | wsj.com | Harriet Torry |Justin Lahart

The relationship reset steers the U.S. economy back on a more familiar path as the major consumer of goods as economists lower recession oddsIf you thought the U.S. economy was breaking up with China, well, think again. “Neither side wants to decouple,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday in announcing the temporary agreement that dramatically lowered tariffs. The U.S., he said, was seeking “a long-lasting and durable trade deal” with China.
Economists Welcome U.S.-U.K. Agreement for Signal Rather Than Substance

6 days ago | wsj.com | Harriet Torry

Economists welcomed the Trump administration’s agreement on trade with the U.K. Thursday, describing it as a positive sign of U.S. flexibility on trade which both sides can tout as a win. Still, the U.K. is a relatively minor player in U.S. trade, and under the deal, the 10% tariff the U.S. imposed against U.K. goods will remain in place.
トランプ氏の利下げ要求、FRBに「影響ない」＝パウエル議長

6 days ago | jp.wsj.com | Harriet Torry

ドナルド・トランプ米大統領は先月、自身の関税政策の衝撃を和らげようと、米連邦準備制度理事会（FRB）のジェローム・パウエル議長に利下げを要求した。それを拒否したパウエル氏を「ひどい負け犬」と呼んだ。　パウエル氏は連邦公開市場委員会（FOMC）を受けた7日の記者会見でトランプ氏の要求について質問されると、そうした圧力は「FRBの職務も、その実行方法にも別に影響はない」と語った。FRBは経済データと二つの使命に専念していると話した。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版今すぐ購読する Special Advertising Section アクセスランキング
Powell Says He Hasn’t Sought a Meeting With Trump, or Any President

1 week ago | wsj.com | Harriet Torry

Fed Chair Jerome Powell in Washington on Wednesday. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Shutterstock)Fed Chair Jerome Powell fielded a question on why he hasn’t met with President Trump so far during his second presidential term. According to Powell, he hasn’t been asked to. “I’ve never asked for a meeting with any president and I never will,” Powell said. “I don't think it's up to a Fed chair to seek a meeting with the president, although maybe some have done so.
Rising Inflation, Unemployment Would Leave Fed With 'Difficult' Choice

1 week ago | wsj.com | Harriet Torry

Reporters pressed Chair Jerome Powell at his news conference Wednesday on what the Fed plans to do if the jobless rate rises alongside price pressures: Which part of the dual mandate will the Fed give priority to, inflation or unemployment? “We could be in a position of having to balance those two things, which is, of course, a very a difficult balancing judgment that we'd have to make,” he said.
We Don’t Have to Be in a Hurry, Fed’s Powell Says

1 week ago | wsj.com | Harriet Torry

Despite President Trump’s calls on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, the Fed chair is making clear at his press conference that the central bank is in no hurry to cut borrowing costs given uncertainty about tariffs. “For now, it does seem like it’s a fairly clear decision for us to wait and see,” Jerome Powell said.
Fed’s Powell Says Risks of Higher Unemployment, Inflation Have Risen

1 week ago | wsj.com | Harriet Torry

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday. (Tierney L.
Welcome to Starbase, Texas. What’s Next for Elon Musk’s Rocket-Building Company Town

1 week ago | wsj.com | Micah Maidenberg |Harriet Torry

SpaceX rocket builders voted overwhelmingly to incorporate rocket complex as a municipality, early results showPolls closed Saturday at 8 p.m. ET following a vote on whether to incorporate a handful of SpaceX rocket facilities and housing near Brownsville, Texas, as a municipality called Starbase. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Subscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign In
Musk’s SpaceX Prepares to Launch Starbase, Its Own Town in Texas

1 week ago | wsj.com | Micah Maidenberg |Harriet Torry

Employees have been voting in an election expected to turn its rocket complex into a townBROWNSVILLE, Texas—Texas’ newest town could soon be led by a mayor who works for SpaceX. The voters are mostly SpaceX rocket builders, renting homes from SpaceX, on SpaceX property. Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satellite business is poised to re-create the company town.