Jerome Powell: “This would be a complicated and challenging judgment we would have to make”

Job growth, he said, has slowed considerably and that the downside risks to employment are rising.

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.

I would agree that climate is the biggest risk.

the outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have changed much since our September meeting