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post: Powell: the Policy Rate is Restrictive Powell: Time Will Tell if We’re Sufficiently Restrictive on Policy Powell: Don’t Think Likely Next Move Would Be a Rate Hike post: Powell: Restrictive Policy May Take Longer Than Expected to Bring Inflation Down Powell: We Will Get Inflation Down to 2% post: Powell: Housing Inflation Has Been a Bit of a Puzzle Powell: Current Rent Increases Have Been Low for Some Time, Not Showing Up in Rollover Leases post: Powell: Lags Between Decline in Mkt Rates and It Showing Up Are Longer Than We Though Powell: It Should Show Up, Just a Question of When post: Powell on the April PPI: "I wouldn’t call it hot. I would call it sort of mixed." (The main readthroughs to PCE from the PPI likely offset as lower airfares and health care costs likely offset the hotter financial services subcomponent.)
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post: Fed’s Powell: US Economy Has Been Performing Very Well Fed’s Powell: US Economy Has a Very Strong Labor Mkt Fed’s Powell: Households Are in Good Shape Financially post: Powell: Overall a Good Picture Looking at US Economic Data So Far Fed’s Powell: Labor Mkt is Coming Back Into Better Balance Powell: Labor Mkt Moving Back Into Better Balance post: Powell: Signs of Gradual Cooling in the Labor Mkt with Supply and Demand Getting Into Better Balance Powell: Inflation in Q1 Was Notable for the Lack of Further Progress Powell: We Did Not Expect a Smooth Road on Inflation, We Have to Be Patient and Let Policy Do Its Work post: Fed’s Powell: We Expect Continued GDP Growth 2% or Better Powell: We Expect the Labor Mkt to Continue to Rebalance but Remain Strong Fed’s Powell: Expect Inflation Will Move Back Down Powell: Expect Inflation to Move Down Back to Levels More Like Last Year post: Fed's Powell: my confidence in inflation moving back down is lower than it was.
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