Fed Gov. Cook
  • We are seeing some improvements in inflation data
  • CPI and core CPI and PPI fell but would be cautious about reading too much into one month of data
  • global supply chains have improved helping the goods price inflation
  • service inflation has not yet slowed
  • rent increases have slowed in recent months in multiunit developments will help on the supply front in housing
  • services prices may prove to be a persistent factor keeping inflation higher
  • growth in labor costs remain well above pre-pandemic rates
  • growth in labor productivity has been lackluster in the US economy and around the world
  • productivity growth is disappointing
  • recent decline in productivity is an artifact of the pandemic. Consumers shifted from low productivity services to high permittivity goods during the pandemic. That is reversing now
  • inflation is tied to productivity
  • if there is a productivity revival it would likely be driven by manufacturing