Powell March 16 2022
  • We are attentive to risks of further upward pressure on inflation
  • It's certainly a possibility to move rates up more quickly as we go through the year
  • Expectation is still that inflation will head down in the second half of the year
  • We expect inflation to remain high through the middle of the year and then come down more sharply next year
  • Monetary policy bites with a lag; will hit more in 2023 and 2024
  • We will be looking to see whether the data show an expected improvement on inflation
  • We will take the steps to ensure high inflation does not become entrenched
  • Wage increases are running at above the pace of sustainable inflation
  • Job market is tight to an unhealthy level
  • There's a mis-alignment of demand and supply in the labor market
  • We do not see a firmly-entrenched wage price spiral

There has been a swift reversal in the US dollar during the press conference. I can't pin that on anything he's said.

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