“The time has come for policy to adjust,” Powell said in his Jackson Hole speech on Friday.
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Takeaways from Fed Chair Powell's speech at Jackson Hole
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell all but proclaimed victory in the fight against inflation and signaled that interest rate cuts are coming in a much-anticipated speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Under Powell, the Fed raised its benchmark rate to the highest level in 23 years to subdue inflation that two years ago was running at the hottest pace in more than four decades.
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(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said on Friday monetary policy is quite tight and is no longer aligned with current economic conditions, although he declined to provide specific guidance on what lies ahead for it. "I usually don't like saying, tying our hands before a meeting, but I've been saying for some time, if you take the level of tightness" now seen in the Fed's interest rate target, "you only want to be that tight on purpose if you're trying to cool an overheating economy, and this is not overheating," Goolsbee said in a CNBC interview. Goolsbee spoke on the cable television network after a speech earlier in the day from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, who clearly signaled the time of Fed rate cuts is fast arriving amid falling inflation pressures and rising risks to the job market.