Feds Harker on CNBC

  • Job market is changing and people's thinking about a job is/has changed
  • Current issues involve supply not demand
  • Fed has achieved inflation goals and is moving toward labor market goals
  • some evidence that inflationary pressures may not be transitory
  • Sees rate hikes in late 2022 early 2023
  • Question is how long supply chain issues go on
  • He supports tapering sooner rather than later, but the Delta variant and other variants are a caveat
  • He is still supportive of moving the taper along because he doesn't think it's helping the economy right now
  • His view is the Fed should finish taper before it considers raising rates
  • Should look at data as it evolves and see if it is appropriate to raise rates
  • We were stuck in a low growth low productivity economy. The productivity has accelerated led by increased investment which in the long-run will help the economy