Kai Ryssdal

How did, because you're almost gone, how does it make you feel when you're... Sorry.

Not gone, gone.

Are we clear on that one?

He's still a young man, which we'll get to in a little while.

How does it make you feel when your job is through...

data-informed decision-making, and public communications to try to control as best you can the fate of this economy.

And really, kind of now the last year, it hasn't been in your control.

But that doesn't come without stress, right?

Small businesses are stressed.

Consumers are stressed.

You know this.

You go out and talk to as many people as I do.

How do you reconcile, though, just consumers being really cranky and yet still spending like a lot?

How much of a factor, though, is that K-shaped economy in your thinking?

And also, you don't speak for the committee, but you guys chit-chat over coffee from time to time, I'm sure.

Yeah, I drink tea, so I'm not in those things.

Beverage of choice.

Not for nothing, but you hear that all the time on this program, that headlines are all well and good.

But what really matters in this economy is how people are feeling in their day to day.

More from Rafael Bostic and the Atlanta Fed coming up in just a little bit.