US Fed Chair Jerome Powell Warns About Future Inflation, Says the Economy Could Be Entering a Period of More Frequent Supply Shocks

The American Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has given a warning about the future of the American economy.

While giving opening comments on the second Thomas Laubach Research Conference in Washington DC, Powell noted that “inflation expectations in the longer term” have been increased real interest ratesThose interest rates are adapted for inflation.

The FED chair also says that those rates can be a sign of the coming things.

“Higher real rates can also be a reflection of the possibility that inflation could be more volatile in the future than in the period between the crisis of the years 2010. We can enter a period of more frequent and possibly more persistent, supply shocks for a difficult challenge for the economy and for central banks.

Although our policy percentage is currently well above the lower limit, in recent decades we have reduced the speed by around 500 basic points when the economy is in a recession. Although being stuck to the lower limit is no longer the basic case, it is only wise that the framework continues to tackle that risk. “

Shock His unforeseen events that quickly change the delivery of a good or raw material.

Evidence suggests that delivery shocks were the most important factor-stimulation inflation between 2021-2023, out Joseph E. Gagnon, an international macro economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Last week, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced That it was planning to maintain the target range for federal funds at 4.25-4.5%, with the argument that this was the most suitable level to achieve both maximum employment and controlled inflation. The FED has kept the interest rates stable since December if it reduced the rate by 0.25%.

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