Fed ‘Not Out of Bullets’ on Inflation: Milken Update

SVB Financial Group Chief Executive Officer Greg Becker during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, on May 3.

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The Milken Institute Global Conference continues in Beverly Hills, California, bringing together investors, dealmakers, power brokers and celebrities to discuss markets and megatrends. Academics, sports stars, entrepreneurs and politicians among the thousands coming to the Beverly Hilton for the event, which runs through Wednesday.

The famed gathering, in its 25th year, has pitched its focus as the power of connection, celebrating “the forces that bring us together while confronting the issues that keep us apart.” It’s a fitting theme for a world jolted by war in Ukraine just as the highest inflation in decades raises the specter of recession and the dregs of a global pandemic refuse to disappear.