More comments from Powell
- current levels of wage growth are not high enough to put upward pressure on inflation
- Fed has no evidence for calling this a hot labor market
- Hot labor market is not a current issue
- Passing US trade deal with Mexico and Canada would be positive and remove uncertainty
- Facebook's Libra project cannot move forward unless concerns are addressed
- Facebooks Libra needs a careful look
- proposed USMCA trade deal is similar to prior deal
- there is no economic consensus on cost-benefit trade-off of minimum wage laws
- an extraordinary number of people are taking opioids and it weighs on workforce participation
- job gains just starting to reach people at margins of the labor force
- employers hiring those who would been outside labor force
- all sorts of communities being dragged into the labor force
