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[来源: CIR] [分类提示: NEWS] 标题: Opinion: Kevin Warsh Takes the U.S. Fed Helm. Cambodia Should Pay Attention By Suon Mach The appointment of Kevin Warsh as the new chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve is attracting attention far beyond the United States. The Fed’s main job is to run the U.S. economy, but its decisions about interest rates, inflation and monetary policy can often have knock-on effects around the world financial system, even affecting the smallest of economies. Warsh is an American economist, lawyer and financier who became Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve on May 22. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2011 and played a leading role during the global financial crisis of 2008.  After leaving the Board in 2011, he was the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Warsh steps into the role at a time of mounting uncertainty surging inflation, rising mortgage rates, and historic lows in consumer sentiment, alongside rising political pressure on the central bank’s independence. He arrives with a list of changes he wants to make, though he may face resistance from other policymakers and the weight of institutional tradition. Among his stated goals is reducing the Fed’s balance sheet, which remains well above pre-2008 levels.  For Cambodia, these dynamics are not abstract. The country sits in an unusual position: given the high degree of d