Jerome Powell: “Yes, of course. We are very focused on pockets of people and different pockets of people for whom the recovery is not…”

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

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 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.

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