• Need policy to be sufficiently restrictive until see inflation is well on its way to 2%
  • Inflation is one of the most lagging variables
  • If you wait until inflation is 2%, we would likely have over tightened
  • Our balance sheet policies on track, the markets continue to be well-functioning
  • It's not the time now to start thinking about changing balance sheet role
  • No evidence of wage price spiral forming
  • More evidence of policy efforts Fed has made so far are working their way through the economy