Jerome Powell: “I want to congratulate and thank, by the way, Mr. Chairman, the 250,000-plus Americans who signed up to participate in…”

If we move too slowly, there may be unnecessary losses, painful losses in the employment market.

The U.S. economy is in solid shape.

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.

I'm very focused on just doing my job.