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Fed will not raise rates on inflation fears alone, Powell says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday reaffirmed the U.S. central ba

Fed will not raise rates on inflation fears alone, Powell says

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We will wait for evidence of actual inflation or other imbalances,” Powell said in a hearing before a U.S. House of Representatives panel.\nRecent price increases have pushed the consumer price index to a 13-year high, prompting Republicans on the committee to offer charts detailing spikes in consumer items like bacon and used cars to suggest price increases are getting out of hand.\n“We have unstable employment and higher inflation,” said Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, referring to the Fed’s congressionally mandated goals of ensuring maximum employment and stable prices. “Something has to give.”\nThe recent high inflation readings, however, “don’t speak to a broadly tight economy” that would require higher interest rates, Powell said, referring to a “perfect storm” of rising demand for goods and services and bottlenecks in supplying them as the economy reopens from the pandemic.\nThose price pressures should ease on their own, Powell said.\nIn setting upcoming monetary policy, the Fed chief pledged that the central bank would keep its eyes focused on a broad set of labor market statistics, including how different racial and other groups are faring.\n“We will not just look at the headline numbers for unemployment,” Powell told the members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. “We will look at all kinds of measures ... That is the most important thing we can do” to ensure the benefits of the recovery are more fully shared.\nMarkets were little changed over the course of the hearing.\nPowell’s comments were “not really much that we haven’t heard before,” said Michael Brown, a senior analyst at payments firm Caxton, London.\nA SENSITIVE PIVOT\nBut the session, at times a sparring match between Democrats and Republicans over the Biden administration’s economic plans, hinted at the delicate line the Fed must walk in coming months as it balances inflation risks with its promise to ensure the economy recovers all the jobs lost after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.\nUntil recently there was little perceived conflict between those goals.\nYet since Powell last appeared before the subcommittee in September, the central bank’s outlook for inflation has doubled. Projections released by the Fed last week showed prices in 2021 are expected to increase at a 3.4% rate, compared with the 1.7% projected as of last September.\nRecent job growth, meanwhile, has been slower than hoped. Some of Powell’s colleagues are now openly suggesting the pandemic prompted so many people to retire it may be unrealistic to think the United States can return to the pre-crisis level of employment before the Fed needs to tighten monetary policy.\nThat is a stance counter to Powell’s own focus on restoring the economy to the conditions of early 2020, and to that of the subcommittee’s influential Democratic chairman, Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina, who pushed Powell on Tuesday to ensure a fair and equitable jobs recovery.\n“Millions of Americans are depending on the Fed to continue to support the economy’s recovery,” said Clyburn, who has close ties to President Joe Biden.\nBiden must decide in coming weeks whether to reappoint Powell to a second four-year term. 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