Jerome Powell

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737 appearances 119 recordings 38 series first heard Mar 2018 last heard 11 Jun

Jerome Powell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Special Fed Coverage: Powell Press Conference · 13 Jun 2018 podcast

in response to an unexpectedly sharp increase in inflation or financial excesses jeopardizing the economic expansion. matched

Conversely, if we raise interest rates too rapidly, the economy could weaken and inflation could continue to run persistently below our objective. matched

This uncertainty is why the fact that we live in that uncertainty is why we've been gradually raising rates. matched

We're not waiting for inflation to show up. matched

We're going ahead and moving gradually and trying to navigate between two risks, really. matched

One would be moving too quickly. matched

Inflation never gets back to target. matched

If we do that and the other is moving too slowly, and then we have too much inflation or financial instability and we have to raise quickly, and that can also have bad outcomes. matched

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Special Fed Coverage: Powell Press Conference · 21 Mar 2018 podcast

I think like any set of forecasts, those forecasts will change over time, and they'll change depending on the way the outlook for the economy changes. matched

You know, it could be that if the economy is a little bit stronger or a little bit weaker, then the path could be a little less gradual or a little more gradual. matched

There's no sense in the data that we're on the cusp of an acceleration of inflation. matched

We have seen moderate increases in wages and price inflation recently. matched

And we seem to be seeing more of that. matched

We'll be alert to that. matched

I guess the idea-the theory would be that if you get below the sustainable rate of unemployment for a sustained period, you would see an acceleration of inflation. matched

So we would know that then. matched

And we're very alert to it, but it's not something we observe at the present. matched

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