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On the recordFebruary 23, 2021
What we learned in the course of the last expansion was that we could have unemployment at historically low levels without seeing troubling inflation arise.
Said by
Jerome Powell
Republican · District of Columbia

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Powell discusses the relationship between low unemployment and inflation.

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