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#Markets: The unpredictable US economy and the Fed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

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#Markets: The unpredictable US economy and the Fed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/how-hard-should-the-fed-squeeze-to-reach-2-inflation-77dbf56f?mod=hp_lead_pos7

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler.

0:12.2

The American economy, a welcome Elizabeth Peake, colonists at the Hill, commissate Fox

0:17.2

News, March on Fox Business. To comment on, the American economy, especially the data

0:23.3

that are so important for the Federal Reserve to understand the American economy, covering,

0:29.7

from the pandemic, recovering from the first and now second year of war in Europe, recovering

0:35.6

in general from the political turmoil of these last years. And the journal has a story

0:40.8

asking this question, how hard should the Fed squeeze to reach 2% inflation if we only

0:47.6

knew the answer? Liz, a very good evening to you. The journal is positive. This is Nick

0:53.4

Timorayas in the front page. Much of the work lowering inflation is done. Among the most

0:59.2

aggressive series of interest rate increases in four decades, 11 of them in a little more

1:04.9

than a year. The Federal Reserve, the interest rates have fallen to 3.2% from 9.1%. Is the

1:13.8

Fed done? Is the question this article is asking? Now, the joy of this is, Liz, I don't

1:20.2

think anybody knows. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Really, that is so true.

1:26.9

People don't know what is kind of the consensus. And about every three weeks, it seems to me

1:32.5

that consensus changes is that the Fed is likely to stay higher for longer. Why? Because

1:39.9

the economy, that the recent data on the economy continues to be pretty darn strong. So, if

1:45.1

they feel that the current level of interest rates is not sufficient and the drawdown of

1:50.8

the money supply, not sufficient to get to their 2% goal instead of cutting rates by the

1:56.0

end of this year. And remember, just a few weeks ago, that was the expectation. Now, we're

2:00.5

talking about maybe they just keep rates high until they see the inflation numbers really

2:06.2

get down that sort of last mile. I liken it to the last mile delivery issues. Always, that's

2:13.0

the most problematic part for any kind of delivery network. This is sort of the last mile for

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