Goodfriend: Fed should focus more on inflation
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:35.0 | I think most experts would agree that the world needs more |
| 0:40.0 | expansionary fiscal policy. |
| 0:42.0 | I think the FOMC is trying to tell us, |
| 0:43.8 | hey guys, there is actually a good case to be made |
| 0:46.1 | for the economy reaching full capacity |
| 0:47.6 | and therefore for us hitting our dual mandate. |
| 0:49.4 | Policymakers don't like changing policy |
| 0:51.9 | without preparing markets. The fact that they haven policy without preparing markets. |
| 0:53.4 | The fact that they haven't been preparing markets for a rate hike suggests that there will not be one in June. |
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