#PowellRemarks Trump says🤥 ‘stupid’ Powell ‘probably won’t cut’ rates when Fed meeting ends Wednesday🤪
❗️ Powell at FOMC press conference:
⚪️ It remains to be seen how sentiment will affect consumer spending.
⚪️ The current MPC is well prepared for contingencies.
⚪️ Short-term inflation expectations have risen recently.
⚪️ A tariff increase is likely to put pressure on economic activity and trigger higher inflation.
⚪️ Our responsibility is to prevent a one-time price increase from becoming a permanent increase in inflation.
⚪️ Fed policymakers' forecasts are subject to uncertainty, which is unusually high.
⚪️ We've had 3 months of favorable inflation numbers, and that's good news.
⚪️ The Fed now has every reason to wait before considering a rate change.
⚪️ The peak of uncertainty has passed, the level of uncertainty has started to decline.
⚪️ We will probably get to the point where a rate cut is appropriate.
⚪️ We will make a more sensible decision if we wait a couple of months.
⚪️ Compared to September 2024, when we cut rates, this year's inflation forecast assumes inflation will rise because of rates.
⚪️ The labor market does not need a rate cut.