Jerome Powell: “At the Fed, we are squarely focused on achieving the dual-mandate goals Congress has given us of maximum employment and…”

I haven’t heard that.

What keeps me awake at night is how do we get that done? I want to hand over to my successor an economy in good shape, and so do all of my colleagues, that's all we ever want.

As long as the economy is in solid shape, we think the prudent thing to do is to wait and see what those effects might be.

It is not a foregone conclusion