Central Banks
Fed Could Cut as Inflation Cools and Real Rates Rise, Goolsbee Says
- Faster progress on inflation would warrant evaluating policy
- Rate-cut path will depend on data, Chicago Fed’s Goolsbee says
Austan Goolsbee
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said officials should consider cutting interest rates as inflation falls to avoid keeping policy too tight, though he stressed the central bank will make decisions meeting-by-meeting.
“If we continue to make surprising progress faster than was forecast on inflation, then we have to take that into account in determining the level of restrictiveness,” Goolsbee said Friday in an interview on CNBC. As inflation comes down, “we would clearly be evaluating the responsiveness.”