Hello, welcome back. Were going to get started on the rest of the event. So im very excited to introduce our next panel. Its all about the labor market. We have two great panelists. The first is were going to hear from katia peneva from the Federal Reserve board. Just to provide some context, thats the section thats responsible for preparing the forecast of inflation and wages and prices for the fomc. I have to admit that we were longtime colleagues and i want to assure any lawyers that are here that none of our conversation should be interpreted to constitute my making a request of katia, the Federal Reserve system or the fomc, so were clear. Our second panelist is jared bernstein, a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and hes been very active for many years thinking about the labor market, inequality and macro policy from his positions both within the Obama Administration and within various think tanks here in d. C. You can read more about his thoughts in his
<p><span>Thank you, Bert, and thank you for the opportunity to talk about where the economy is heading, what the Federal Reserve is doing to get inflation back down to our 2 percent goal, and how all that is likely to affect American agriculture.</span></p>