Wall Street’s most successful hedge fund just politely told the Fed to shut up

The Fed must not make its job tackling inflation harder by confusing markets, warned Citadel boss Ken Griffin. (Credit: Bryan van der Beek—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

If there was one piece of advice the boss of hedge fund Citadel LLC would give to the Federal Reserve, it would be to stop talking so much.

Every time Fed chair Jay Powell opens his mouth to discuss all the progress the central bank has achieved cooling off last year’s red-hot inflation, he may actually just be making his own job harder by confusing investors with different messages.