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Good day.
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This morning, the FOMC decided to maintain the target rate for the federal
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funds rate at 3 .75 % to 4 % in support of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate.
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Economic activity is expanding at a strong pace.
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While uncertainty remains, owing in part to geopolitical developments, domestic spending has been resilient.
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Productivity growth is strong and capital investment robust.
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Job gains have kept pace with the workforce and the unemployment rate has changed little, but inflation remains elevated.
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The committee believes
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that the accumulation of more information will help it determine the
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policy stance appropriate to ensure a timely return of inflation to the two percent goal
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the committee will deliver price stability at each policy meeting my colleagues
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and i assess the economy by looking out the window
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it's what we call interrogating reality to gauge what's really going on it is not a task
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that has grown easier so what exactly do we observe economic growth has strengthened.
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The GDP increase in the first half of this year was
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revised up from an earlier estimate of 1 .8 percent up to 2 .4 percent.
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And the third quarter appears to have brought an even more rapid advance, led by healthy consumer spending, likely running above 3 percent growth,
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and business investment likely rising at about a double -digit pace.
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Capital expenditure are at a historically high share of GDP.
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High -tech investment is leading the acceleration, but there's also been a broadening in other categories, and these trends bear watching.
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What about the jobless rate?
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The jobless rate is lower than a year ago, and payroll growth is noticeably above last year's pace.
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The four -week moving average of unemployment insurance claims continues to run at the lowest level in generations.
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So on the employment side of the Fed's dual mandate, conditions are quite positive.
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And yet Americans, of course, are still dealing with inflation that has been running above the committee's objective for close to six years.
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It's our responsibility to get inflation down.
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That's the reason the FOMC's discussion over the last couple of days focus mainly on the price stability side of our remit.
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Since our policy action in September, we have started to see some changes in financial and credit conditions.
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They have tightened for some businesses and households, much as we would expect.
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Market participants are becoming somewhat more discerning in their capital allocations.
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And while overall financial conditions are tighter, I'm unwilling and unable to call them tight.
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But broadly, these developments go in the direction of achieving a longer,
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more durable period of economic growth and price stability.
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Over the last couple of days, the committee had a good discussion of the changes in the economic and financial landscape that marked this intermeeting period.
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We discussed geopolitical developments and fast -moving changes in technology.
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We observed, but were not surprised, that financial markets showed bouts of volatility and shifting correlations.
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So as we widen the frame to survey the broad economic and financial picture, real activity is clearly pointing in the right direction.
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That's good news.
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But inflation is too high.
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Energy and related prices have moved higher again in recent weeks,
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and our job is to ensure that relative price changes in some sectors do not broaden out across the economy,
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and that inflation expectations remain as they are anchored.
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While these uncertainties are real, there's no lack of clarity in our purpose at the Fed.
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Since becoming chairman just five months ago, I've been honored to work with FOMC policymakers who are unambiguous in their commitment to stable prices.
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We've made clear our readiness to act as circumstances require and we have shown our willingness to act.
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The information we receive over the coming period will help us determine where we want policy to be and at every turn,
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good or bad, our job is to get monetary policy right.
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And that's exactly what we're doing.
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Now, with this objective in mind, we've decided on a change in our FOMC schedule starting next fall.
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We believe eight meetings per year is the right number for the FOMC.
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But in 2027, one meeting will focus exclusively on broad monetary policy strategy,
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with neither a vote on the federal funds rate nor a policy statement anticipated.
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The rest will be regular FOMC policy setting meetings.
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And I expect that in 2028, we'll have two meetings dedicated to discussions of strategy and six for setting policy.
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Now, what's the reasoning behind this change?
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To me, it's quite straightforward.
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Getting policy right involves assessing near -term developments at timely, regular, and information -rich intervals.
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But it's equally important we reserve time and space as an intellectually diverse group for strategic deliberations,
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for thinking anew about big questions, looking out over longer time horizons, focusing, as I say, on the left side of the decimal point.
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I believe the setting of the meeting schedule and agenda is more than some administrative detail.
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It's an institutional choice, affecting the nature and the quality of our deliberations, and ultimately the wisdom of our decisions.
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It's yet another change to get the conduct of monetary policy on the right track.
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I appreciate your attention this afternoon.
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Now my time is yours, and I welcome your questions.
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Thank you.
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Colby Smith of The New York Times.
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There's been essentially no progress toward the 2 % inflation target.
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The labor market remains stable, as you suggested in your opening statement,
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and most of your colleagues seem to be on board with raising rates in December.
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So why not just raise rates today?
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So it's a good question.
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I will say I read your stories the last day or two, so I must admit I sort of saw that question coming.
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What I said in my prepared statement was information coming in
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the coming period will help us tell us where we want to be
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but I suspect you want a little more than that.
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So let me give it a shot.
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Ensuring price stability, Colby, quashing inflation, is not about some fixed individual date on a calendar.
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Same way it's not about some isolated data point.
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If it were about those two things, this job would be easier
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and we wouldn't be suffering from nearly six years of inflation above target
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so what's this about it's about ensuring we have clear objectives
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and it's about a monetary policy strategy which might sound to your ear
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and others like a change from the last several years
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so let me step back uh in the five months or
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so that i've been around we've put in place what i describe as new monetary medicine well what's been in
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that package of medicine
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First thing we did when we showed up with my colleagues is we doubled down on the 2 % inflation target.
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We said, we own it.
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We're taking responsibility for it.
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And if you think that we're tolerating some inflation target somewhere in the twos, let us disabuse you of it.
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That was the first part of this, new monetary medicine.
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Second part is we took responsibility.
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No anguish of central banking here.
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No blaming others.
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It's the third thing that we've done.
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we laid out for you
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and the world our framework
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i did it in jackson hole was part of the discussion the last couple days of the framework
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that many of my colleagues skew to as well
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this is how we think about how monetary policy should work these are the transmission mechanisms
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and this is how we're going to deliver then what we do we interrogate reality we do
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that periodically that's a very useful thing to do
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but we don't just talk we act and so in september when we last met we acted.
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We removed a dose of accommodation.
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So what are the signposts about how this new strategy is going?
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Inflation compensation, as measured by swaps, prices, many other measures, inflation compensation is going in the right way.
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Inflation expectations.
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The world is quite unsettled.
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If you'd say, absent the Fed, what would have happened to expectations?
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They might to go on the wrong way.
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They've gone the right way too.
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So I feel good about those signposts.
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The period right in front of us is information rich.
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There is a lot that's happening in the world.
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My colleagues and I are keen to take notice of it.
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So in this coming period, what do i think
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we're going to be able to do we're going to be
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able to figure out what's the appropriate protocol as part of this package
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that we start deliver five months ago to deliver price stability
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i'm encouraged by the progress we've made in a short period of time
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but if the crux of your question is you haven't delivered yet you haven't achieved price stability you're right about that, but we're working on it.
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Thank you, Chair Warsh.
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So, if I could, this statement says
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that the accumulation of more information will help the committee determine the policy stance appropriate to ensure timely return of inflation
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to the 2 percent goal.
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Does that mean that the current level of the Fed Funds rate might already be the right one?
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well um we've got to determine the appropriate protocol
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if you were listening next to me in that room the last couple of days
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the overwhelming consensus the overwhelming judgment is
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that what we've done in this monetary medicine starting to work some
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but there's no firm conclusions
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if we had a firm conclusion about the conduct of monetary policy we'd announced
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it to much fanfare today what we decided to do was
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to call these question take stock of where we are evaluate
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what we're seeing out the window ask ourselves whether the period
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right in front of us is likely to provide more clarity
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on the appropriate protocol my judgment the judgment of my overwhelming number of colleagues is that it would steve please Mr. Chairman,
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before, thanks for taking our questions, but before the meeting, several
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members of the board and the committee went out and told us
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that we're going to take more time and that had a profound effect on the outlook for the funds rate.
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Were you involved in discussing that message with them?
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And if you don't mind, I'm sorry, but a protocol question, what will be the disclosure,
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public disclosure on the meetings where you're not going to have a statement?
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So two questions.
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I'm sorry.
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Two questions.
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Did you not hear the one question rule?
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I did, but I thought there was like a protocol thing I could do.
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I would.
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That was like a parliamentary procedure question you were asking.
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That didn't count.
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I hesitate to indulge the second question.
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I fear what it would do.
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But let me see if I can do it and not have the slippery slope among us.
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Your first question was about my colleagues.
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I've got 18 quite independent colleagues.
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If you were inside that room the last couple of days, you would come to believe that to be true.
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One way to test the independence of my colleagues is, I don't know if you've heard, Steve, but I don't submit a dot.
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I don't plan on submitting a dot.
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But the 18 of them do.
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To suggest somehow that I am some kind of all -knowing person sending messages out,
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that's not the committee of the FOMC that I know.
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These are serious, sober, responsible people.
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We had a serious, sober discussion.
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So that's the answer to that.
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On the parliamentary question, which doesn't count as a question, I'll just say this.
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We've made a decision that at that strategy meeting in 27 and the two strategy meetings in 28, I do not anticipate making any policy decision,
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putting out a policy statement.
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But what might we come out with?
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It's not obvious yet.
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There's more news to come on that.
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The decision on the new format for the meetings is relatively new.
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It was a robust discussion over a couple of meetings of how to handle that.
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As we get details of that, which are still now not until next fall, we'll be prepared to share them with you.
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Nicole.
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Hi, Nicole.
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Good kind with Barron.
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Thanks for taking my question.
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In September, you mentioned
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that the Fed has a role in sustaining the economic progress happening in America right now
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and in the rising opportunities that come with it.
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I'm wondering if you can expand on whether you see this as a mandate and how you intend to fulfill that mandate.
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So the mandate was given to us by Congress.
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The mandate was deliver stable prices and deliver full employment all in the context of financial stability.
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Now, they gave us some other homework to do on supervision and regulation payments, but I presume you're talking about monetary policy.
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So what's the best thing we can do in this environment, looking out our window to deliver on that remit?
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Ensure stable prices.
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I mentioned, I think, at a prior press conference, if you were trying to do the most harm, the least well -off among us,
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you would let the last six years of inflation above the Fed's target, usually well above the Fed's target, you'd let that continue.
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So that's the most important thing we can do as we look out the window, and that's what we plan to do.
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You probably heard me say this we will deliver price stability
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No, ifs ands or buts and that continues to be the case Eleanor.
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Eleanor Mueller was said before.
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Eleanor Mueller was said before.
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Wanted to ask you about the working groups, when we can expect the reports to come up,
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and if there is anything you can preview for us, whether it's on AI or data or balance sheets.
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Sure.
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These five task forces are hard at work.
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I have scarcely seen anything that would constitute a final report, But I have done some periodic check -ins with them,
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and I am impressed by the rigor of the intellectual discussions, by the seriousness of the task that we've given them.
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Now, some of the questions that I ask to kick off the reports, they want to answer those and answer a whole range of other questions,
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which might go to other task forces.
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But I'm impressed by what they're doing.
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I gave them, like I told you, a year -end deadline.
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I think some but not all of the groups will probably hit their deadline and turn their homework in on time
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But that just begins the process by which we're going to be consuming which is intellectually serious work
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That's a catalyst for us to think anew about productivity and jobs and an inflation framework
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And what's the best data to help us do our job how to think about the balance sheet task force?
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Um, these are huge intellectual investments that I think are going to bear fruits in the next policy conjuncture.
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Um, unlikely to find their way into this policy conjuncture given the important role as consumers of these ideas that my colleagues have.
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But I will have one small announcement.
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Um, I previewed this when I was at an IMF meeting, much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues around here on November 16th,
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the productivity and jobs task force will be doing a field hearing, inviting a broad range of people who have strong views.
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What are the implications for jobs in the economy near term, medium term, long term?
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Is this a productivity miracle that's going to happen?
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Or will it happen slowly?
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I know I for one, I'm keenly interested in refining my own views on that question.
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But that task force decided they
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They wanted to hear from more people as part of their undertaking.
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I plan at attending.
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I might have a few words to say at the outset of that conference.
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I expect the conference will go three, four hours.
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It'll be pretty wonky stuff.
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I don't know how good the material will be for the likes of you and your colleagues.
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But it's a purpose to do a lot of listening for me to interrogate the reality in front of me.
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What do experts in their fields think about this?
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What are the implications for the dual mandate that I referenced to your colleague?
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Is this going to make it harder or easier for us to achieve price stability over the next several years?
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What are the implications for jobs, medium and long term, but near term, too?
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So we're going to explore those largely in the public realm on November 16th.
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I look forward to seeing you there.
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MS. James Rosen.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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James Rosen with Newsmax.
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You spoke of interrogating reality.
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Since reality is a no -show here today, I'm going to satisfy myself with interrogating you.
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You spoke earlier in your remarks here today about how your colleagues are serious
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and sober people who are committed to price stability.
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In an event in the Oval Office on October 7 of this year, President Trump said, and I quote,
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Kevin is great, but Kevin's one vote out of a board with numerous people
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that were put on by Obama and Biden and a couple by me
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so you have a board
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that would like to see the country do badly in my opinion do you agree with those comments
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so james i appreciate the question
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i'm not going to be responding to uh to quotes from
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public officials what i can tell you is my experience in five months here
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we just came out of a heck of a family fight a serious sober discussion
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i think we came to uh the right policy decision for this moment,
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and I'm honored to be here and honored to be the chairman of this group.
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Maria, let me say that.
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Chairman Walsh, Maria Luis Acapurro with Bloomberg News.
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So the economy is strong.
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Inflation is well above 2%.
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You're saying inflation expectations are going the right way,
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but surveys show that households expect inflation to remain above the Fed's goal and not just for the short term.
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Using a hike today, I'm waiting for more data.
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I haven't really heard the clear arguments as to that decision.
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So do you worry that with today's decision, households may not believe your pledge to bring down inflation clearly and at sufficient speed,
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and instead will read this decision of holding rates steady as a sign that the central bank has, in fact, a soft inflation target?
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Yeah.
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So what I can do is tell you there's no soft inflation target.
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There's no implicit inflation target.
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There's a target of price stability, and it's 2 percent as measured by PCE.
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It took six years for inflation to have the effect on consumers that you reference.
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But I would say this.
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When consumers interrogate reality, they look outside their window, too.
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They go to the gas station, too, and they see that prices are up.
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I am not going to be the guy who says that oil prices haven't gone up,
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and when they fill up their tank, they don't see it.
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And so inflation's gone up in expectations in the very near term because they're doing what we're doing, interrogating reality.
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But if you look out over the horizon, if you look at most, but not all, measures, what you see is households,
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businesses, financial markets, they have the confidence that they should have that this central bank will deliver price stability.
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Edward, Lawrence.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Edward Lawrence, Fox Business.
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So do you see a direct line correlation between oil prices and the inflation we're seeing in the United States?
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And if so, how fast could inflation fall or react to falling oil prices?
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So I don't want to engage in hypotheticals, but I can look out our window and see what's happened.
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There'd been a stable correlation between oil prices, as they've moved up this year, generally, and interest rates.
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Not the interest rates that we control, but interest rates set in the market.
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That correlation has been quite strong until very recently.
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We've seen oil prices continue to move up, largely due to geopolitical events.
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We've seen crack spreads between oil and refined products continue to stay elevated.
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But what's happened?
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Interest rates have rolled over to the downside.
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I'm not a Wall Street newsletter.
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I'm just telling you when I look out the window over the last several months, that is what we've seen.
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To the extent that oil prices were to move lower, again probably due to geopolitical events,
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that's something that we're going to have to interrogate.
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What are the effects on the Fed's dual mandate?
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What are the effects on financial market prices and what are we going to do about it?
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But that's a hypothetical.
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And in fact, if we look at financial market prices, um, uh, futures prices for oil,
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they've moved up over the course of the last several weeks and I can't help but take note of that too.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Claire Jones, Financial Times.
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Much of the growth that we're seeing in the U .S economy now
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and quite a bit of the inflation too is coming from the AI boom.
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There's quite a lively debate as to whether or not,
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you know, this is a part of the economy that's sensitive to interest rates in the same way as, say, housing.
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I'd love to get your sense of, you know, do rates need to rise more,
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given that so much of the U .S economy now is about AI than it otherwise would if,
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say, you know, housing was a bigger part of the story.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Claire.
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So there was a narrative for quite a while, maybe even in this room over the course of the last several press conferences.
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Well, they're going to raise rates, they're talking about raising rates, but it's not going to have any effect on ai
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because the returns that investors are expecting are
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so different um i was skeptical of
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that view interest rates get in the cracks interest rates affect directly
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or indirectly almost everything and what have we seen since early september what we've seen inside of the technology complex,
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outside of the technology complex, whether you pronounce it AI or SI, Claire, is up to you.
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What have you seen?
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Interest rates have had an effect.
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You see market participants that are discriminating between the kinds of investments they want to make.
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You've seen credit spreads for certain assets widen out, gap out.
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For others, you've seen some tightening in financial conditions, but not significantly.
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So on the thrust of your question of with respect to the new technology and this investment surge, do interest rates matter?
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I believe they do.
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And I don't believe that they're somehow divorced from the rest of the economy.
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Secondly, I'll just say this.
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It is convenient to say that the strength of the economy is all about this new technology wave.
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In fact, if we look at the data, really including data from the last meeting till this, the CapEx story is not just robust,
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not just strong, but it is broadening.
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And so if you want to tell the story somehow that this is This is...
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strength we're seeing only in narrow pockets.
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That's a much harder story to tell now than it would have been several quarters ago.
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Elizabeth Schultz, on the back right.
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Thanks so much, Elizabeth Schultz with ABC News.
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As you know, the midterm elections are in six days.
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Did the midterms factor into the Fed's decision to stay on hold?
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And if not, how can you assure the American public that politics were not at play here?
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So, um, politics played no role in the decision.
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I just spent two days with my colleagues upstairs.
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I didn't hear an utterance about politics.
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I didn't hear a reference to politics, elections, what's happening in the next week or so.
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I didn't hear anything about it.
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And I don't believe it had any role in the decision, not just for me, but my colleagues around the room.
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But I will say it's an information -rich interval in the coming period having nothing to do with politics.
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Chris Rugeber.
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Hi, thank you, Chris Rugeber at Associated Press.
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I know you don't like the statement of economic projections, but last month they did, your colleagues penciled in another rate hike for this year.
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And so could you give us your sense from this meeting
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whether you still see widespread support for another hike this year around the table?
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Thank you.
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So the blackout period for them ends, I think, on Friday or at some point over the weekend.
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So they might they might indulge you in that discussion.
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I don't believe in forward guidance, absent exigent circumstances, absent a crisis.
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I have to give that caveat because in the darkest days of the 2008 financial crisis,
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in part using some literature and thinking from a very recent
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Nobel Prize winner that kind of forward guidance is actually quite helpful
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but in normal ordinary times especially times where the underlying real economy is this strong
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I don't believe in it I don't favor
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it I also don't believe in prejudging meetings a lot of things can happen
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so I'm not gonna be able to to share with you my musings about what happens
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when this group gets together six weeks from now.
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But my judgment is that we might learn a lot and like in my response to Colby's question will be,
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I think, better position to determine the right policy decision and the stance of policy.
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Saying we Hi, my name is from the Korea Economic Daily newspaper.
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I got a question as a foreign press
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you have spoken several times about the possibility of the Fed shrinking its balance sheet further
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If that plan moves it forward later
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How would you avoid the disrupting foreign official holders of treasuries or dollar funding markets abroad like
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South Korea and Japan?
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So thank you for your question first off I would say
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I pay probably more attention to the Korean economy than you might think because
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when I'm looking at the feedstocks effectively for this new surge in technology a lot of it's coming from Japan
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and Korea some from Singapore
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so I'm particularly interested in in what's happening in the Korean economy usually
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because it's telling me what's what's on planes and ships coming this way.
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Secondly, I should say that your new central bank governor is someone I've known for 20 years
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and is a very talented guy and a good friend, so I'm glad he's in that post.
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He and I met actually about 20 years ago amid the global financial crisis, as it would come to be known.
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And I remember this is a generation of discussions with him
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about the use of the balance sheet in exigent circumstances like we had then.
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At this point, the balance sheet is solely within the four walls of the balance sheet task force.
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Now, I have checked in with them, full disclosure.
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They're working away and comparing their best thoughts.
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And I think the conclusions they come to, the recommendations they come to, will be fed into the FOMC probably early in the first quarter,
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but don't hold me exactly to that timing and and
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if we decide to make changes in the balance sheet it'll be after a serious consideration of their proposals
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and their recommendations I
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think it is unlikely to have any material effect on this policy conjuncture
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but it's a question we should get to the bottom too
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and I look forward to doing it with the help of the outside task force
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Nick Temeroso of the Wall Street Journal.
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Chairman Warsh, I want to follow up on your answer to Claire's question.
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As the AI investment boom becomes more dependent on external financing,
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does that make aggregate demand more sensitive to interest rates than it was before?
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And related to that, when you removed a dose of accommodation last month, did you see about what you bargained for?
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so you gave me two questions
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and neither of them were ahead of any sort of parliamentary out
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so you're giving me the opportunity to choose choose choose which of those um
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so i'll answer your second question um
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when we removed a dose of accommodation i don't know six weeks ago uh
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we don't have perfect foresight on what financial markets are going to do with it
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But broadly, I would say the effects on financial markets, on financial market conditions broadly were consistent with my expectations.
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Howard Schneider.
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Howard Schneider with Reuters.
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Thank you, Chairman Worsh.
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I'm going to take
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Nick's first question then.
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Okay.
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Give it to me again.
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I don't remember.
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No. It's about aggregate demand and the components of inflation.
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A lot of your colleagues have said
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they felt the investment boom in AI was now adding a strong demand component to inflation,
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and this was a handoff from the supply side concerns that might be expected to fade over time.
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How much do you think demand is adding to inflation right now, and how sensitive will that be to Fed control?
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Good, good, good, good, good pickup of that.
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Good team effort. So I'd say this.
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The only things we really know in economics and supply and demand cross.
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Our measures of the size and the shape of the aggregate demand curve is imperfect.
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Broadly, what I heard in the room the last couple of days is consistent with my own views, which is the economy is strong.
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I didn't try to sugarcoat that in the first part of my statement.
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The economy has been marked up for the first three quarters.
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The economy is pointing in the right direction.
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is the economy running too hot is the economy running too strong
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that isn't the judgment of most of my colleagues part of
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it is we never know what potential growth really is howard
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my judgment is we have seen an improvement in productivity we can't measure it precisely i think most of
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that change in productivity precedes everything we're talking about
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superintelligence but productivity has been moving higher in the economy however imperfectly measured i think for a couple of years
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and so economic growth is higher but that doesn't tell me
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that economic growth is somehow causing inflation and making our job harder
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but we'll be continuing to look at those issues the goal in my view
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and you've heard me say this before isn't to throw sand in the gears of the economy
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and throw people out of work.
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I don't think we have to do that.
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The dominant means in which this policy is going to be put into practice is we are tightening financial conditions.
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They've tightened a bit since we met last time.
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That isn't something that we're uncomfortable with.
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That tells me that policy is working, and I think we can do that and make the economy more durable,
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have it last longer, and still achieve stable prices.
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Okay, we'll go to Victoria for the last question.
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Hi, Chair Warsh.
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Um, Victoria Guido with Politico.
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I wanted to ask, next week is, uh, a hearing at the White House on Lisa Cook's future and,
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uh, allegations that have been made against her.
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Are you personally or the Fed as an institution going to be involved at all in those proceedings?
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Uh, not to my knowledge.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, guys.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “FOMC Press Conference, October 28, 2026”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: inflation, price, policy, rate. This video has 447 sentences and 5303 words to shadow. The speech runs for 34:04. The speaker talks at a natural 156 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| inflation noun | /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ | An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid. |
| colleague noun | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate. |
| stability noun | /stəˈbɪlɪti/ | The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change. |
| monetary adjective | /ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/ | Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money. |
| mandate noun | /ˈmændeɪ̯t/ | An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization. |
| sheet noun | /ʃit/ | A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. |
| productivity noun | /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ | The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient. |
| stable noun | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses. |
| judgment noun | /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ | The act of judging. |
| expectation noun | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. |
| protocol noun | /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɑl/ | An amendment to an official treaty. |
| household adjective | /ˈhaʊshoʊld/ | Belonging to the same house and family. |
| pace noun | /peɪs/ | A step taken with the foot. |
| dual adjective | /ˈdul/ | Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components. |
| sober adjective | /ˈsoʊ.bɚ/ | Not drunk; not intoxicated. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| look out verb | To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger. |
| look forward to verb | To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to. |
| move up verb | To promote, put onto a higher level. |
| bring down verb | To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power. |
| come out with verb | To say (something) unexpectedly. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| fill up verb | To make (something) completely full. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's our responsibility to get inflation down.
- To me, it's quite straightforward.
- We're taking responsibility for it.
- Were you involved in discussing that message with them?
- Did you not hear the one question rule?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | has been running · has been moving |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · have kept · has grown |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are anchored · I've been honored · was given |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | that, which are · consuming which is · people who have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 125 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, sheet /ʃit/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: stability /stəˈbɪlɪti/, monetary /ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/, productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, parliamentary /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like inflation, colleague, stability.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.