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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has warned that getting inflation under control will involve “some pain to households and businesses.” What kind of pain is he talking about? So far, the pain has been plunging stock values and higher borrowing costs for homes, cars, credit-card purchases and business investments. But the toll could also include a surge in unemployment, and all the strains that go along with it—which typically harms lower-income workers most of all. Powell won’t… Source link

President Joe Biden acknowledged that a major problem facing Americans remains high inflationary pressures, but said Wednesday that a large share of the dilemma falls on the shoulders of the nation’s central bank. “A critical job in making sure elevated prices don’t become entrenched rests with the Federal Reserve, which has a dual mandate: employment and stable prices,” Biden said on the eve of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. The price stability mandate is in flux, where the… Source link