Jerome Powell: “Racial discrimination in mortgage lending, in any kind of lending, is completely unacceptable.”

We may approach that point in coming months

I'm very focused on just doing my job.

Part of that is due to the start-stop nature of the tariffs that have been introduced.

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.