Lisa Cook Federal Reserve

The Fed Gov. Lisa Cook is on the wires saying:

  • Willing to alter course as the data is evolves, watching a broad range of indicators
  • Prior research on emerging markets raise the sensitivity to damage of persistent inflation risks
  • Fed will learn path, peak of the federal funds rate as it sees the economy evolve
  • Frontloading of rate hikes required to short-circuit inflationary psychology
  • Balance sheet decline is on the right path, acting as a complement to rate policy
  • Current market conditions not like the spring of 2020, continues to function well
  • Highly uncertain what level of unemployment might be associated with study inflation
  • For right now, 2% is the Fed's inflation target and what it is striving to hit