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Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time and all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for three and a half minutes to give an Opening Statement. Notwithstanding the greatest monetary and fiscal stimulus in your nations ...

Committee will come together without onbjection. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I recognize myself for 3 1 2 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Not with standing the greatest monetary and fiscal stimulus, the economy limp aid long for eight years averaging 1. 6 gdp growth. Wages remain stagnant and failing since the 2008 financial crisis. New phrase by leftleaning academics in an attempt to rationalize the phenomena namely secular stag nati...

From a 2 e decline forecast in june. Unemployment falls 4. 1 in the next two years. Inflationerm level of and full employment remains. In the statement, fed officials suggest hurricanes will not have a longterm impact on the overall economy. Hurricanes harvey, irma, andrea has devastated communities conflicting severe hardship and rebuilding will affect Economic Activity in the near term. Passive experience suggest storm is unlikely to alter the course of the National Economy over the medium term. They will affect prices. Higher prices for gasoline will likely boost inflation temporarily. Rema...

The target range for the federal funds rate at 1 to 1. 25 . His accommodative policy should support some further strengthening in the job market and return to 2 inflation, consistent with our statutory objectives. We also decided that in october we will begin the Balance Sheet Normalization Program that we outlined in june. This program will reduce our Securities Holdings in a gradual and predictable manner. I will have more to say about these decisions shortly, but first, i will review rate recent Economic Development in the outlook. As we expected, smoothing through some variation from quart...

Revised down its 2017 core inflation projections from 1. 7 in june to 1. 5 . Unemployment will hold steady they expect by the end of the year, 4. 3 but gdp has been revised up from 2. 2 in june to 2. 4 what they expect by the end of the year. The fed is going to maintain its projections for a thirdrate hike in 2017 according to the fed dot plot and it is also projecting three potential rate hikes in 2018 but again members of the fomc are bit more dovish on the rate hike projections. Thee members dropped projections this year. From Federal Reserve statement, storm related reductions will affect...