Committee. The meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. He has asked me to gavel in and begin my Opening Statement and then hopefully he will be here. We are very, very honored to have chairman powell. We thank him so much for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy, and the potential challenges ahead. Id also like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you help steer the economy through what in some ways are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony, by some measures, our economy is strong. The National Unemployment rate fell from 10 at its peak during the Great Recession to only 4. 7 when President Trump took office. And it has continued to fall. It now stands at only 3. 6 . The economy has continued to add jobs now for 10 9 consecutive months. More than nine years. Years. Inflation remains low. Below the feds target. Wages are moving up though not as fast as we would like. But it is w
This is nothing this is something we should work on, and the work on this predated me coming to treasury and this has been a long time, and as i mentioned earlier, we may come back to congress and suggest that you pass legislation. I would ask you, this is not on your 2021 calendar. This should be on your december calendar. I agree. I look forward to working with you. I need to know whether you need legislation. I need to know what you need and we need to make sure that are 2 billion of outstanding debt where people kbts determine what interest is supposed to be paid, and i want to move on because i do chair the asia subcommittee for another week, and we focused on china. China could end up with 1. 5 billion of world bank loans. This is under discussion now. Chinas income has exceeded the level where they should be eligible for these loans and the Chinese Government has enough money to put a million uighurs behind bars and to build a military complex that destabilizes the world so it s
Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. The chair of the Federal Reserve, jerome powell, testified on Monetary Policy in the economy before the joint committee. He said he expects the u. S. Economy to continue growing at a steady pace with a strong labor market so the federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and debt. The meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. In andasked me to gavel begin Opening Statements and hopefully he will be here. We are honored to have chairman powell and we thank him for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy and the potential challenges ahead. I would also like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you througher the economy what in some ways are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony, by some measures, our economy is strong. The National Unemployment rate fell from 10 at its peak during 4. 7 reat recession to only when President Trump took of
[inaudible conversations] the meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. He has asked me to gavilan and begin my Opening Statement and hopefully he will be here. We are very very honored to have chairman powell. We thank him for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy and the challenges ahead. I would like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you help steer the economy through in some ways what are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony some measures, our economy is strong. The National Unemployment rate fell from 10 at its peak during the Great Recession to only 4. 7 when donald trump took office. And it has continued to fall. It stands that only 3. 6 . And jobs for 109 consecutive months, more than nine years. Inflation remains low before the feds target and wages are moving up and not as fast as we would like. It is weak in other ways but other measures tell a different story. Gop
Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the National League both cities, its a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its