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Certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question. Chairman powell, [ inaudible ] to the policy framework, is the fed open to other measures of the economy such as income inequality and affordability of housing . So we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy and in a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy. You mentioned inequality. You know, disparities in income and in Financial Wellbeing by various demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality which i would point to its a multifac...

Five officials believe the federal fun rate should be at same rate. Five would like to see the rate at level it was before this meeting today. Now the Federal Reserve raises the gdp forecast to 2. 2 this year. Also see the Unemployment Rate nudging up to 3. 7 by the end of the year. Core inflation they do believe stays the sail at 1. 8 by the end. Year. In the statement everything was basically the same there except they added the fixed Business Investment and exports have weakened, changing from soft, Federal Reserve says they will act as appropriate to stay in expansion. Now on the shortterm...

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 ...

That that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion , so the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is, it is of concern to me and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn which, well, could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role may well be limited. Sam and then victoria. Sam flemming. A couple of longer term questions. First of all midway through the year you talked about issues of whether inflation targets might need to be raised and a lot mo...

Consider the until this year, the reasons why inflation was low are not hard to understand. Its a combination of slack in the labor market, declines in energy prices, and a strong dollar that pulled down import price inflation. So, whats important in determining inflation Going Forward is Inflation Expectations by some, by many, by some survey measures of professional forecasters, those have been rock solid. We do also look at household expectations, which have come down some. Marketbased measures of inflation compensation as we mentioned in the statement, they have declined and theyve been st...