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Fed’s Mester wants ‘much more evidence’ that inflation has been defeated

From cnbc.com

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said Thursday that this week’s news showing lower levels of inflation isn’t enough to convince here that the central bank has won its battle against higher prices. “We’re making progress on inflation, discernible progress. We need to see more of that,” Mester told CNBC’s Steve Liesman during an interview on “The Exchange.” “We’re going to have to see much more evidence that inflation is on that timely path back to 2%. But we do have really good evidence that it has made progress and now it’s just, is it continuing?” In separate reports, the Labor Department said that ... (full story)

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