Her term ands in february. Inwhen her term ends february. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for the record. This is the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy on the estate on the state of the economy. Recognize myself for an opening statement. Since we last convened on Monetary Policy, there have been encouraging economic headlines. Onfidence is up unemployment remains low, as does inflation. But it rests too much on incredibly low participation payment high disability participation rights. Both paychecks and savings for working Americans Still have room to grow after eight years of distortionary Economic Policy under the Previous Administration. On the fiscal front, help is on the way. House republicans have passed the American Health care act to l
We try not to opine on whether theyre correct or theyre not correct. But on, as you asked what the potential spillovers or impacts on Financial Stability could be of asset price revaluations, my assessment of that is that as asset prices have moved up, we have not seen a substantial increase in borrowing based on those asset price movements. We have a Financial System, a Banking System thats well capitalized and strong, and i believe its resilient. Okay. Thank you. Time of the gentle lady has expired. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from missouri, mr mr. Lucamire, chairman of the subcommittee. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thank you, madam chair, for being here today. As chairman of the Financial Institutions subcommittee, my concern is the oversight by the various Financial Services agencies. Chair yellen, when it comes to the feds supervisory role, i renew my call and the call of so many colleagues that the fed take a more measured approach and withhold any new regulation until
Economic condition and possible fed actions in the future. You look like nervous. Im much more nervous, like yeah. Yeah. At work it will be eight or nine days away, but it can happen any time. I hope so. Im better than that. Lets talk about schedules. The committee will come to order without objection and they declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous material to the chair for inclusion in the record. The hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony and the board of governors on the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. Since we last convened to take chair yellens on Monetary Policy, headline remains low as does inflation, but the headline Unemployment Rate still rests too much on an incredibly low Labor Participation rate and regrettably high disability payment Participation Rate.
Had a slight beat on revenue. But they did better on earnings per share, 1. 24 as opposed to 1. 19. Thats the first of several to come. Now we want to go to our morning brief. Were going to continue with retail sales reports, as we have macys out at about 8 00 this morning eastern time. 30 minutes later, its weekly initial jobless claims in the United States, plus Producer Prices coming up for the last month. And at 10 00, as alix mentioned, bill dudley holds an economic briefing on Regional Wage inequality. Finally at 1 00 this afternoon, the u. S. Treasury is going to auction 15 billion of 30year bonds. Throughout the day, people on both sides of the pacific are following developments in the potential conflict between the United States and north korea. To take us through the perspective from asia, were joined from hong kong by our chief asia economics correspondent. Give us a sense of how it looks over there. What are the possible effects that people are expecting of a possible confl
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to everyone here. I will call this here in short order. We are here today to consider the nomination of representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be the next director of the office of management and budget. Im going to try to keep my opening remarks brief since we have a pair of senators before us for going to give some introductory remarks of their own concerning their nominee. President trump indicated his intent to nominate representative of any for this position a little over a month ago. I think we would like to see a confirmed director in place as soon as possible. So i am happy to note that the other Committee Jurisdiction over omb d awe need an omb director in place with so many causing budgetary issues requiring the attention of the new administration and most among these foremost is a 20 trillion debt burden american shoulders. Congress need