Jerome Powell: “The single most important policy to getting those sectors reopened and getting people back to work, of course, is…”

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

I’m very focused on just doing my job.

In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs, and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs.

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.