Jerome Powell: “I would say we are committed, and I am personally committed, to learning the right lessons from what happened in Silicon…”

The U.S. economy is in solid shape.

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

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

As long as the U.S. economy is in solid shape, the prudent thing to do is to wait and learn more and see what the effect might be.