Jerome Powell: “My hope is that we can work together to do so again--and to build a stronger American economy for future generations.”

The U.S. economy is in solid shape.

We may approach that point in coming months

I’m very focused on just doing my job.

If we're going to do that successfully, we need to do it in a completely nonpolitical way, which means we don't take sides, we don't play one side against the other, we stay out of issues that are really not our bailiwick.