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FEDERAL RESERVE Powell Set To Deliver ‘Profoundly Consequential’ Speech, Changing How The Fed Views Inflation
CNBC ^ | 08/24/20 | Jeff Cox

Posted on 08/24/2020 5:38:19 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will speak Thursday during a virtual version of the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference.

He is expected to outline what could be the central bank’s most active efforts ever to spur inflation back to a healthy level.

“Average inflation” targeting means the Fed will allow inflation to run higher than normal for a period of time.

The effort will be the reverse of former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s rate hikes instituted to quash inflation in the 1980s.

History will remember Paul Volcker and Jerome Powell as standing on the opposite ends of the inflation canyon, with the former taking desperate actions to try to tamp it down and the latter expected this week to announce an unprecedented effort to crank it back up.

Powell, the central bank chief since 2018, is likely to detail a set of measures aimed at pushing inflation higher amid a coronavirus pandemic that has dragged the U.S. economy into one of its darkest hours.

While the average consumer might find it absurd to want to raise the cost of living, central bankers and economists see too little inflation also as a problem. It often reflects a slow-moving economy with a low standard of living. On top of that, the accompanying low interest rates give policymakers little wiggle room when crises happen and there’s a need to loosen policy.

That’s why Powell, who will speak Thursday during a virtual version of the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference, will outline what could be the central bank’s most active efforts ever to spur inflation back to a healthy level. The speech is titled “Monetary Policy Framework Review” and wraps up a yearlong examination both among central bank officials and with the public, during a series of open events, on what policy..

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
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To: Vermont Lt

“Home prices will fall, because mortgage rates will go up.”

No, inflation will raise home prices.

Interest rates ARE low, but banks are NOT lending, a paradox of sorts.

Too much regulation: Easy money for the DeepState, very tight money supply for the peasants.


41 posted on 08/24/2020 6:27:23 PM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Enlightened1

The Dems would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. We all had better know this.

Everyone is going to pay for this China Virus except those who caused it.


42 posted on 08/24/2020 6:29:45 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

The Dems would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. We all had better know this.

Everyone is going to pay for this China Virus except those who caused it.
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Maybe or maybe not. If that 3G Dams goes, I’ll consider it God’s revenge on the perpetrators for the WuHuFlu.


43 posted on 08/24/2020 6:32:21 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: DoodleDawg

Yeah, the Fed’s timing isn’t that precise...the “bubble bursting” crashes are hard to time...the late 2007 crash was coincidentally an election year (most of the crash after the Nov. election) , but I am pretty sure that was a coincidence.


44 posted on 08/24/2020 6:38:04 PM PDT by Drago
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To: greeneyes

Don’t hold your breath.


45 posted on 08/24/2020 6:42:47 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Enlightened1

Its just fiat money anyway

Backed by the good wishes of tbe bankers and unicorn farts

The dollar today is worth about a penny if you go far back enough


46 posted on 08/24/2020 6:49:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Enlightened1

Whatever he says is a careful calculation with only one goal in mind...”Get Trump!”


47 posted on 08/24/2020 6:49:23 PM PDT by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Wage increases in salary just means chasing higher and higher prices in a laggard way, it will “come out OK” only if you squint, and onlyin nominal numbers on paper. Monetary Inflation is a kind of tax.

The truth is ordinarily prices over time go _down_, not up, generally speaking. We’re being robbed, essentially. All sorts of jiggery-pokery is invoked to try and dance around this plain fact. Hedonistic adjustments, substituting margarine for dairy butter in the CPI.

Hell, they don’t count food, energy, or housing costs in the official inflation numbers. Anybody who claims 2% avg monetary inflation over the years is smoking their socks. Now they want to kick it into overdrive apparently.


48 posted on 08/24/2020 6:49:36 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Enlightened1
Fire up the printing presses.

Ludicrous Speed is too slow. Crank it up to Zimbabwe Speed.

49 posted on 08/24/2020 6:53:06 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: Drago

The media was determined to have a crisis that year. First housing then Bear Stearns.


50 posted on 08/24/2020 6:55:16 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Enlightened1

Don’t fix something that isn’t broken. We haven’t had an inflation problem since 1981. I would reject this policy and replace the Chairman if I were President.


51 posted on 08/24/2020 6:57:59 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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To: Enlightened1

Long ago I read an article that said when you see “Federal Reserve” substitute the phrase “banking cartel” and everything they do will make much more sense.


52 posted on 08/24/2020 6:59:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: georgiarat

Harrison Ford vacations there.
Maybe we can get him to fly Powell there...


53 posted on 08/24/2020 7:02:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

I don’t think he can replace the Chairman.


54 posted on 08/24/2020 7:08:22 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Freedom4US

The problem is the higher prices come long before the wage adjustments. So people fall behind in real terms.


55 posted on 08/24/2020 7:15:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: Enlightened1
Printing massive amounts of money to chase few goods produced in the shut-down economy. What more can they do?
56 posted on 08/24/2020 7:16:20 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Freedom4US
Hell, they don’t count food, energy, or housing costs in the official inflation numbers.

There are a lot of versions of the Consumer Price Index produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those used for calculating Social Security and I-Bond interest rates do include energy and food costs.

I remember my I-Bonds did strange things because of a big jump in energy prices around 2006.

57 posted on 08/24/2020 7:17:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: Mariner

...Universal debt holiday.

Kills every pension and retirement plan out there
Elderly pauperized at a time when they can’t recover
Quick way to rapidly prune down Medicare and SS rolls


58 posted on 08/24/2020 7:31:22 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Enlightened1
It's a political move to hurt President Trump right before the election

Yes, payback time for the bloody little tick.

59 posted on 08/24/2020 7:38:17 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Enlightened1

BAD MOVE.

We already have inflation. It is being hidden and lied about. Just like laws against price gouging. A sham as well. Both inflation and price gouging are alive and well.

Powell is making a political move to blunt the stock market and then the economy.


60 posted on 08/24/2020 7:41:28 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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