Bowman: Opening Remarks

From federalreserve.gov

Thank you, Austan, for the warm welcome. It is really a pleasure to join you in Chicago for this year's Fed Listens event. When we started Fed Listens back in 2019, the initiative was part of a broad, comprehensive review of the decisionmaking framework we use to pursue our monetary policy goals of maximum employment and price stability. In the years that followed, we have met with people from across the country and from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to learn about how the economy has been recovering from the COVID experience. Each Fed Listens event created a wonderful opportunity to take a step back, ... (full story)