Jackson Hole Symposium
The Economic Policy Symposium, held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is attended by central bankers, finance ministers, academics, and financial market participants from around the world. The meetings are closed to the press but officials usually talk with reporters throughout the day. Comments and speeches from central bankers and other influential officials can create significant market volatility;
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From boj.or.jp|Aug 23, 2025|5 commentsLet me begin by thanking the organizers for inviting me to this conference. This year's theme, "Labor Markets in Transition," is highly relevant to Japan. Our labor market is indeed undergoing a significant transformation, but the direction and underlying causes are somewhat unique to our country. For many years after the burst of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s, the combination of near-zero inflation, economic stagnation, and structural policies aimed at stimulating labor supply masked the demographic pressures on labor ...
From ecb.europa.eu|Aug 23, 2025|1 commentAlexis de Tocqueville – one of the keenest observers of early American democracy – once wrote: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” In monetary policy, too, we often look to past cycles for guidance, expecting familiar patterns to repeat themselves. But this cycle has proven to be original in striking ways. Major central banks have undertaken the most aggressive tightening in a generation. At the outset, there were understandable concerns about how such a rapid and substantial ...
From economics.bmo.com|Aug 22, 2025|8 commentsFed Chair Powell spoke on the “Economic Outlook and Framework Review” at Jackson Hole today. The key phrase in the economic outlook section was that “with policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.” This signals that a rate cut is squarely on the table for the September 16-17 FOMC meeting. Powell reiterated that: “In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation. When our ...
From global.morningstar.com|Aug 25, 2025|5 commentsUS Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s eagerly awaited speech at the central bank’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday has analysts saying an interest rate cut looks very likely in September. While he noted that tariffs are putting upward pressure on inflation, the balance of risks appears to have shifted toward a weakening economy. “With policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance,” Powell said. “Inflation had moved much closer ...
From cbsnews.com|Aug 25, 2025|5 commentsWhen Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door to cutting interest rates for the first time in nearly a year, he noted the tremors beginning to shake a main pillar of the U.S. economy: the labor market. Concerns about the pace of job growth were heightened earlier this month after government data showed a sharp slowdown in hiring in July, along with much weaker payroll gains in May and June than previously thought. The disappointing numbers were alarming enough for President Trump to question their accuracy and to ...
From economics.bmo.com|Aug 22, 2025|8 commentsFed Chair Powell spoke on the “Economic Outlook and Framework Review” at Jackson Hole today. The key phrase in the economic outlook section was that “with policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.” This signals that a rate cut is squarely on the table for the September 16-17 FOMC meeting. Powell reiterated that: “In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation. When our ...
From spectramarkets.com|Aug 22, 2025|6 commentsJerome Powell has had a change of heart. July 30th, he was saying that breakeven levels of employment are low and inflation is an issue. Two days ago, the FOMC Minutes said: “A majority of participants judged the upside risk to inflation as the greater of these two risks, while several participants viewed the two risks as roughly balanced, and a couple of participants considered downside risk to employment the more salient risk.” “Several participants noted concerns about elevated asset valuation pressures.” Today he decided that ...
From think.ing.com|Aug 22, 2025|14 commentsChair Powell at Jackson Hole: "Risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation. He noted that when our goals are in tension like this, our framework calls for us to balance both sides of our dual mandate. Our policy rate is now 100 basis points closer to neutral than it was a year ago, and the stability of the unemployment rate and other labour market measures allows us to proceed carefully as we consider changes to our policy stance. Nonetheless, with policy in restrictive ...
From @RedboxWire|Aug 22, 2025|6 commentsFederal Reserve Official Hammack Says Chair Powell Is 'Open Minded' About Future Policy Plans FED'S HAMMACK: FED SHOULD STICK TO MODESTLY RESTRICTIVE MONETARY POLICY ?HAMMACK: FED IS STILL MISSING BADLY ON INFLATION MANDATE FED'S HAMMACK: A BIG WEAKENING IN JOB MARKET COULD DRIVE FED TO CUT RATES JOB MARKET MUST BE EVALUATED BY WIDE RANGE OF DATA BROAD PICTURE OF FINANCIAL STABILITY LOOKS GOOD Federal Reserve Official Hammack Says Policy Is "Only Modestly Restrictive"
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