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Good afternoon, everyone. To begin, id like to say a few words about paul volker who as you know passed away earlier this week. Paul volker served as Federal Reserve chair from 1979 to 1987. He accomplished many things during his long and distinguished career at the fed and elsewhere. Hes best known for leading the fight to tame the doubledigit inflation he inherited, laying the prosperity we enjoy today. But what is perhaps most admirable about him more than his accomplishments was his character. He believed that there was no higher calling than Public Service and he dedicated the lions share...

Contemplates as the committee contemplates the future target range of the federal funds rate it will act as appropriate to expand the expansion the vote, 82. Two dissents Esther George of kansas city and Eric Rosengren of boston both wanted to keep rates unchanged. On the Economic Outlook, surprisingly the same from the month or months when they didnt cut rates. They say the labor market remains strong Economic Activity rising at a moderate rate. Unemployment remains slow. Household spending appears to have picked up Business Investment has been soft, thats the one negative. Inflation running ...

introduced the fix nix ni -- the fix nics act to ensure all federal agencies accurately and entirely upload the conviction records on a timely basis. yes, this is the same senator chris murphy i'm working with now to try to achieve a success here. we've done it before, and i believe we can do it again. our bill was signed into law in march of 2018, and in the first three years 11 1/2 million more records were uploaded into the three national databases that the f.b.i. checks. the number of records in one of those databases increased by more than 30% alone. so i think i can say with as...

Stabilize. I will be that there is a limit below which oil prices are likely to rise. We look at Market Expectations, market forctations are stabilization. And then some gradual upward movement. I certainly grant that we have had a series of shocks, pushing them down. But we are not looking for them to revert back to the higher levels that they were at. Merely to stabilize. Would point out, you ask me, would we tolerate overshoots . For a number of years between 2004 and 2008 we had a series of increases in oil prices that for a series of years raised inflation above. Again, we didnt have a 2 ...

That we eventually want to operate with a much smaller Balance Sheet than we have at present. The, that we would reduce the size of the Balance Sheet to essentially, whatever size we needed to manage Monetary Policy effective in, in effective and efficient way. Now a lot has changed since prefinancial crisis in terms of the Financial System and, we are studying, were engaging in project at this time. To consider whether a longrun operating framework should look like. So, i cant tell you exactly what size of Balance Sheet we will determine is the best to operate in an efficient and effective ma...