Rafael Bostic

I think...

I'm trying to think why you think I'm downbeat.

I understand.

Okay.

We're going to figure it out.

Clean up on aisle six.

Look, but figuring out is going to take a little more time because there's more complication.

Figuring out will mean that I think we're going to have to move more cautiously.

But we're going to keep doing our job.

And, you know, one thing I always say, I don't have a recession in my outlook.

That is not where I see this economy going.

Still today right now, I do not.

To me, that's why I'm mystified a little on the job because this economy has been remarkably resilient.

When we talk to businesses today, they tell us the last quarter, the last second half of 2025 was pretty strong.

They say we're going to get exactly that as the baseline.

So none of the input or the feedback that we're getting, it tells us that the economy is on the cusp of something terrible.

And on quite the contrary, we're going to produce at a pretty robust level.

Once inflation gets entrenched in people's minds, it changes how the economy evolves.

And it's one of the reasons why I think that we need to keep our policy in a restrictive posture so that we get inflation back to 2%.

That's paramount.