Austin Goolsbee
speaker
59 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Austin Goolsbee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Bloomberg News Now · Russia, Ukraine Ceasefire, Trump Plans to Fire FDA Chief, More · 8 May 2026
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And at least to me, view that the only thing that's on the table conceivably are rate cuts.
If we get some progress on inflation.
And we show we're headed back to a path of on our way to 2% inflation.
I'm optimistic rates can go down.
We just haven't been having that.
I think the economy is growing.
I think the economy is growing quite vigorously.
I think you could hit 6% nominal GDP this year.
But we have a backup plan that is going to make sure that the president's trade policy is made a reality very, very shortly.
Just look around the world in countries
And at times when the central bank is not independent, the administration presses, cut the rates, cut the rates.
If inflation comes roaring back, that'll be the next person's problem.
I'm not hawkish about rates.
I'm pretty optimistic that we can get rates down further, multiple cuts in 2026, as long as we see the progress on inflation that forecasters have been forecasting, that it's supposed to start coming down.
And I just want us to see some progress on that front and not get ahead of ourselves.
I think that the policy uncertainty, we're seeing more on the labor side.
I think the low hiring, low firing environment
is what you would expect when there's a lot of uncertainty.
That's not really what the beginning of a recession looks like.
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