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Welcome. Today to lower the target for the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to arrange 2 to 2. 25 . The outlook remains favorable, and this action is designed to support that outlook. It is intended to ensure against weak globalks from growth to help offset the effects of these factors currently on the economy. And to promote a faster return our 2 objective. All of these will support achievement of the overarching goal, to sustain the expansion with a strong job market and inflation close to our objective for the benefit of the american people. People. We also decided to conclude the runoff of our securities portfolio in august rather than in september as previously planned. And i will discuss the thinking behind the reduction in turn to the pot forward. As the year began, both the economy and Monetary Policy were in a good place. The Unemployment Rate was below 4 in a are interestrate target was that the low ends of neutral. Over the first half of the year, the ec
Inflation to our symmetric 2 objective. All of these objectives will support achievement of our overarching goal, to sustain for the benefit of the american people. We also decided to conclude the runoff of our securities portfolio rather than and september as previously planned. N in september as previously planned. And i will discuss the thinking behind the reduction in turn to the pot forward. As the year began, both the economy and Monetary Policy were in a good place. The Unemployment Rate was below 4 in a are interestrate target was that the low ends of neutral. Over the first half of the year, the economy grew at healthy pace. And it pushed on appointment to near a halfcentury low. Wages have been rising particularly for lower paying jobs. People who live and work in low and middle income communities tell us that many who struggle to find work are now getting opportunities to add new and better chapters to their lives. This underscores the perfect of sustaining expansion. To the
Welcome to the National Economists club 2019 senator mitch are account. Im happy to say we are having a better year, our Weekly Lunch Program is enjoying great attendance. We have rich diversity of speakers, intellectual diversity of the field. We come to one of our two major events of the year, our summer signature program. I want to thank two friends, two sponsors that made it worthwhile. In for him is a research and consulting firm, very much embodies the tradition of innovative Economic Research at the university of maryland. Our friends at the National Association of realtors since 1908 they have been the voice of the Real Estate Community in washington and provided some invaluable economic data, Economic Research and the critical sector of the economy. With those organizations supporting us with this large and distinguished audience behind us we come to a moment, i cannot imagine a better marriage of a moment and the speaker, then what we have today. James bullard is really a man
For its purposes and rely on supervisory and regulatory tools, you know, to keep the Financial System resilient so youre not doing something today to help today and then its going to cause problems down the road . Youre not worry about that kind of dynamic theres very few things i dont worry about at all of course we monitor we have every quarter an extensive briefs on financial stable we have that yesterday we look at this on an ongoing basis. We have a great team we liase around the world. Were very much monitoring these things all the time, and we worry about them all the time. Were looking for the thing that we may have missed a lot of the time the things we havent missed, they paint a mixed picture, but not one to prevent us from taking Monetary Policy actions that we think are appropriate to support the economy. Reporter youve talked in this press conference about being data dependent Going Forward and this is not the start of a series of rate cuts, but the Financial Markets seem