Warsh on inflation: The Fed's predominant focus should be on prices

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Kevin Warsh, speaking at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, states that the Federal Reserve's primary focus should be on inflation. He emphasizes the need to understand not only the direction but also the speed of underlying inflation trends, noting that while some measures have fallen significantly, overall progress has been modest.

Structure

1Introduction of topic: inflation focus for the Fed
2Current state: inflation above target
3The job of policymakers: capture underlying trend inflation
4Challenges: easier said than done, gauging direction and speed
5Progress: some measures fallen, but overall progress modest

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Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said in his speech Friday at Jackson Hole that policymakers should be working to gauge the underlying trend inflation. Read more at the #linkinbio or the link on screen. #CNBC #kevinwarsh #inflation

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CNBC Warsh on inflation: The Fed's predominant focus should be on prices Inflation is running above our 2% target. predominant focus right now should be on prices. So what's our job? The job for policymakers is to capture underlying trend inflation. Easier said than done. We want to gauge whether underlying inflation is rising, falling be stuck in place. We also want to understand not just the direction of travel, but the speed. Each of these broad inflation measures have fallen significantly of a few years ago. But progress of years has been more modest.

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Inflation is running above our 2% target. The Fed's predominant focus right now should be on prices. So what's our job? The job for policymakers is to capture underlying trend inflation. Easier said than done. We want to gauge whether underlying inflation is rising, falling, be stuck in place. We also want to understand not just the direction of travel, but the speed. Each of these broad inflation measures have fallen significantly of a few years ago. But progress of years has been more modest.