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Jerome Powell: Full employment is not sort of a precise concept in our thinking, in my thinking, and I think a number of indicators…

On the recordNovember 27, 2017
Full employment is not sort of a precise concept in our thinking, in my thinking, and I think a number of indicators would suggest that we are at or around full employment.
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Jerome Powell
Republican · District of Columbia

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Powell discusses the ambiguity of the term 'full employment' in relation to current labor market indicators.

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