Jerome Powell: “We are strongly committed to bringing inflation back down, and we are moving expeditiously to do so.”

I’m very focused on just doing my job.

If we move too quickly, then we may leave the inflation job unfinished and have to come back later and finish it.

Stopping sooner could have made some difference, but not likely enough to fundamentally alter the trajectory of the economy

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