Central Banks

Fed Officials Tout Inflation Progress, Still See Long Way to Go

  • ‘Progress continues,’ Chicago’s Goolsbee says at Detroit event
  • Richmond’s Barkin not convinced inflation on path to 2% goal

Austan Goolsbee.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Federal Reserve officials welcomed the latest data showing receding US inflation, while adding that there’s still a way to go before it reaches the central bank’s 2% target.

“Progress continues, though we still have a way to go,” Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday at an event in Detroit, after a monthly report on consumer prices revealed a broad slowdown in inflation in October.