Fed's Powell pledges to combat inflation
'forcefully,' but warns of economic pain ahead
Fox Business,
by
Megan Henney
Original Article
Posted By: MDConservative,
8/26/2022 4:49:14 PM
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday delivered a stark message on the state of the U.S. economy at the annual central bank gathering in Wyoming: Inflation remains painfully high, and cooling it will require forceful action that could soon bring "pain" to households and businesses nationwide.
In his hotly anticipated speech at the Kansas Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole symposium, Powell reiterated a pledge to "forcefully" fight inflation that is still running near the hottest pace in 40 years and wrestle it closer to the Fed's 2% goal.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/26/2022 5:00:16 PM (No. 1260211)
Sixteen percent mortgages here we come. Maybe more. FJB
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Sanchin 8/26/2022 5:13:08 PM (No. 1260216)
Powell is NOT Volcker and the reasons and conditions for inflation today are different than in the eighties. More importantly, Reagan battled and beat excess spending and passed legislation to reduce taxes and stimulate the economy. This POS in the WH is canceling oil, recklessly spending, increasing taxes, and inciting civil unrest by seriously dividing this country, and has been the catalyst for the Defensive moves by Russia into Ukraine and is trying to push China towards a military response. Hold on and Buckle up because no one with any experience is flying this plane.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 8/26/2022 5:20:07 PM (No. 1260220)
As long as the "president" and congress keep printing and spending money like they have been, there isn't a durn thing the Feds can do that will bring inflation down. A deeper depression with higher inflation than ever will be the only results - other than the economic destruction what little is left of our economy and national sovereignty,
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/26/2022 5:25:44 PM (No. 1260221)
The fraud that will be required to overcome the voters' anger and outrage is getting farther and farther than what the 'Rats are capable of. The only option I see coming is violence. We passing the 'buy gold' stage to 'buy lead'.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
thefield 8/26/2022 5:37:57 PM (No. 1260232)
Back to the good ol' jimmy carter stagflation. It took Reagan five years to clean up.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/26/2022 5:53:59 PM (No. 1260253)
There will be plenty of pain, but fortunately for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell he will feel none of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/26/2022 6:20:49 PM (No. 1260281)
Pain "soon," you Learjet liberal? Are you at all in touch with the people of this country?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DW626 8/26/2022 6:32:39 PM (No. 1260293)
So what he’s saying here is that it’s going to get worse.
The pain is already here and we feel it every time we gas up and go to the grocery store.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 8/27/2022 5:12:42 AM (No. 1260571)
"There will be economic pain. Not for us, but it will exist."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/27/2022 4:40:18 PM (No. 1261015)
All the Fed knows how to do is STEAL MONEY and Pull/Push the string to mess with money...
What Powell is doing is Push the String, and of course nothing happens but he's too stupid to notice!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NYbob 8/27/2022 11:41:57 PM (No. 1261248)
We have been in stagnation for a couple of years, we are running past recession into a new kind of depression and when the fire really gets going megacrash, gigapanic, whatever you want to call it when the rich have no where to run to, where society instantly reverts to warlords and scavengers. Without the medium of exchange and without the flow of goods, ALL the rules fall apart. Packs of desperate people will test all the bodyguards and security forces the vile 1% have been careful to build up in the last 20 years.
I wish I was just bringing up movie plots, but the vile 1% WANT all of this. They think they will not only survive, but become stronger. Some of them are insane enough to think they are going to merge with A.I. and become immortal. Pure greed, evil and stupidity runs on the emotional thinking of an angry child. Without a working, creative society they will not have the life they are planning, if they have a life at all. They think they can enslave the world. Maybe, but not at the speed things are happening. At least I hope so.
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Currently, the interest on federal funds range from 2.25% to 2.50%, while mortgages run 5.55%. Neither of these are the answer to inflation. These rates are still "easy money" in a historical context. How high the Fed is willing to go, especially as the '22 elections come soon, is likely to be not much higher. To bring down inflation, a severe recession is almost unavoidable along the line. And no politician wants that to happen on his watch.