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Perhaps with the strong January CPI report in mind, Fed Chair Powell received several questions by House Financial Services Committee members on the framework review and the recent history of rate policy amid rising inflation:
Separately, when asked about Pres Trump's social media post earlier in the day ("interest rates should be lowered, something which would go hand in hand with upcoming tariffs") and whether tariffs would actually cause inflation, Fed Chair Powell remains neutral: "here are many organizations, public and private, whose role is to to speculate publicly about what this might be. What we're doing is we're reserving judgment until we actually know what the policies are."
Interestingly he noted re trend potential GDP growth: "For a long time, people thought that U.S. potential growth was a little bit below 2%. We've had five years of good productivity growth and we hope that'll continue. If that does continue then it might be 2% or 2.25% - that would be well above the SEP's 1.8% longer-run median.
Chicago Fed President Goolsbee (dove, 2025 FOMC voter) tells the NY Times that the January CPI report was "sobering". While he told the NYT that seasonal effects may have been at play as usual in January, and echoed Fed Chair Powell's post-CPI comments by saying that he would not read too much into a single inflation report, he also said “there’s no question, if we got multiple months like this, then the job is clearly not done."
Outside of Germany in Europe Pi, structural positioning is slightly more mixed: