Jerome Powell: “We serve all Americans in a nonpartisan, nonpolitical way, that we try to deploy the best thinking and the best…”

The public would lose faith that the central bank will make decisions based only on what’s best for all Americans.

Stopping sooner could have made some difference, but not likely enough to fundamentally alter the trajectory of the economy

The outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have changed much since our September meeting

It is not a foregone conclusion