<p><span>Thank you, Mike, and thank you to the Global Interdependence Center for the invitation to speak to you today. Let me start at the place that all remarks about U.S. monetary policy should start, which is with the Federal Reserve s dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability.</span></p>
In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction but not in the same way as her forebears.