Fed's Bullard on Bloomberg TV:
- Rate hikes have had an impact especially in the housing market
- Have to react if inflation doesn't fall as expected
- Wont predate what remove he backs at December FOMC meeting
- In 2023, if inflation starts to decline meaningfully, Fed can stay where it is at higher rate level
- First have to get to the right rate level and then moved to data dependency
- Does not appear to be a lot of financial stress now in US economy
- Sees possibility of good inflation dynamics in 2023
- Not clear that equity pricing should be main metric of financial liquidity
- US still in low productivity growth regime
- He thinks US GDP will be revised higher for 1st half of the year at some point but too late to be useful for monetary policy
- Fed should not react to declines in the stock market
- Inflation expectations are looking good now at least based on TIPS market
- Thinks we have the right expectations and markets, and Fed has right policy in place