That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question. Chairman powell, [ inaudible ] to the policy framework, is the fed open to other measures of the economy such as income inequality and affordability of housing . So we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy and in a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy. You mentioned inequality. You know, disparities in income and in Financial Wellbeing by various demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality which i would point to its a multifaceted thing but i would point to the relative stagnation of incomes for people at the lower end of the income spectrum and also lower mobility. So those are things that hold back our economy. They are. The thing is, we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get at those things through
To try to get there first and that sort of thing so im hopeful we will very much try to learn as much as possible from that facility and from all the other ones too we have a lot to learn here. So well certainly be trying to do that. In terms of fiscal concern, so, you know, for many years ive been before the fed i have longtime been an advocate for the need for the United States to return a sustainable path from a fiscal perspective at the federal level. We have not been on such a path for some time, which just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy this is not the time to act on those concerns this is the time to use the great fiscal power of the United States to do what we can to support the economy and try to get through this with as little damage to the longerrun productive capacity the economy has possible the time will come, again, and reasonably soon, i think, where we can think about a longterm way to get our fiscal house in order, and we absolutely need to do
Im hopeful we will very much try to learn as much as possible from that facility and from all the other ones. We have a lot to learn here. We will certainly be trying to do that. In terms of fiscal concerns, for many years, i have been before the fed, i have long time been an advocate for the need for the United States to return to a sustainable path from a fiscal perspective at the federal level. We have not been on such a path for some time which just means the debt is growing faster than the economy. This is not the time to act liz well, you know what, it was going along really, really well and it was making history. That was of course chairman Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve. This is the very first time we have ever had i guess its considered a zoom Federal Reserve meeting and reporters, of course, were standing by. You saw the chiclet screen there. Here we are. We got it back. Lets dip right back in. But to let that get in the way of us winning this battle really. Edward lawr
Beijing says mainland infection rates are falling rapidly. The virus continues to wreak economic havoc. Data shows acrosstheboard slumping china for the first time on record. Shery lets take a quick check of the markets closed in the friday session and how u. S. Futures are reacting to that emergency rate cut. We are seeing u. S. Futures accelerating losses at the open, down more than 4 despite the fact we saw another emergency rate cut by the Federal Reserve and President Trump expection x resting satisfaction expressing satisfaction. This comes on the cut friday and we saw the s p 500 seeing its best day since 2008. We have every sector of the s p 500 index in the green, rising at least 4 following the worst session since 1987. We did have the president also coming out with many measures to support the economy including a declaration of National Emergency and moving to prop up energy prices. A moratorium of federal student loan interest. Not to mention the private sector jumped into