- Beige book showed modest growth but not very fast.
- Right now is unusual. Risks to employment is to the downside and inflation is to the upside.
- Over the summer labor market has softened.
- Focus on inflation needs to moderate to a more balanced approach
- We will look at labor market, growth data, inflation data and ask if policy is in the right place.
- If policy is not in the right place, we will move it there
- Aggregate households are in good shape.
- It is not a time of elevated financial stability risks.
- Cannot say that labor market is really solid anymore
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- We are not targeting prices for financial assets
Question and answer: Beige book showed modest growth but not very fast