Central Banks

Fed’s Williams Says Policy in Good Place, Must Be Data Dependent

  • New York chief says monetary policy is in restrictive stance
  • Fed needs to ensure inflation gets down to 2% sustainably

John Williams

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said US monetary policy is “in a good place,” but officials will need to parse through data to decide on how to proceed on interest rates.

“I think we’ve gotten monetary policy in a very good place in terms of we have a restrictive stance of policy,” Williams said Thursday during a moderated discussion with Bloomberg TV reporter Michael McKee at Bloomberg LP’s headquarters in New York.