Oil moving higher now has very little inflationary consequence 12 to 18 months out.

All the inflation happens up front.

And so that's part of why central bank should look through an oil shock as the Federal Reserve has historically done.

Forward inflation expectations a year out, two years out, three years out,

are all pretty much unaffected by what's been going on.

And in fact, a lot of them are lower since the FOMC met in January.

My view is that the economy can bear additional support for the labor market from monetary policy.

With the labor market very gradually cooling and declining wage pressures,

you just are not going to get a wage price spiral that a central bank would normally respond to.

When you sort of say something like running it hot, it's wildly and precise because it's a statement that sort of assumes that supply is constant, that you can't

increase the horsepower of the car. I don't think the economy needs monetary policy to be

slamming on the gas and accelerating the economy like it was in 2021 or 2022. But I also don't

think it needs to be holding the economy back.

And right now it is modestly restrictive and it is holding the economy back.

And I don't think that's consistent with the macroeconomic backdrop.

What matters when you think about shocks to the supply side, whether they're AI, oil, regulation,

no matter what the shock is, what matters when you think about this is.

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