Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari
- Inflation is not being driven by wages
- Today's inflation is caused by supply chain challenges, stimulus, Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Wages are trying to catch up to inflation, not driving it
- Our traditional models to analyze economy are not working very well right now
- Our economy's potential is lower today because of the pandemic
- Fed's job is to bring demand down to balance to lower level of supply
- We will do what we need to do to bring inflation back down
- Once we do I would expect interest rates to normalize
- we are going to get inflation back down
- if we get further help on the supply side that increases the probability of a soft landing
- we will do everything we can to achieve a soft landing while getting inflation down - its not entirely up to the Fed though
- I wish we had begun tightening policy sooner
- even if we had started to tighten earlier we would still have high inflaiton
- some things are out of our contrl on inflation